Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Laws governing age of sexual consent today are different for hetero people, gay men & lesbians because of the legacy of Queen Victoria

Queen would not consider that women would have sex with women, so medicalisation of homosexuality initially focused on men. ∴ different laws

Over time, as fiction & pornography changed, heterosexual male norms appropriated women having sex with women as a sexual fantasy.

Back to the study: it asks: why do more women report attraction to women? Well, sexuality studies have answered this: sanctions have changed

While it is more socially acceptable for women to report same-gender attraction, the sanctions are tougher on lesbians & bisexual women

That is heterosexual women may fantasise & act on same-gender attraction, but they do so b/c it doesn't really disrupt heterosexual identity