Partner Study III - Homosexual Women 1991/93

Problems of daily life of lesbian women in Eastern Germany. Attitudes
and conduct in love and partner relations.
Topics:
Belief in the "great love";
age at first lesbian thoughts or knowledge about personal homosexuality;
understanding of others;
understanding of parents;
personal acceptance of being lesbian;
problems at "coming out" regarding the homosexual and heterosexual environment;
change in conduct regarding companies or government offices
after the turning point and reasons for this;
preference for being lesbian;
knowledge of father or mother about being lesbian and
attitude of parents to this (scale);
siblings;
urban or rural character of home town;
family constellation in childhood;
openness regarding love and sexuality in parental home;
dependence of happiness in life on factors in various areas;
current employment;
suspicions about whether colleagues, classmates, fellow students are lesbian;
difficulties in making and maintaining contact;
keeping a distance, rejection, discrimination due to sexual orientation
in occupation or training, from friends, in family and public;
threats and use of verbal and physical violence;
conduct when a man tries to make contact;
treating discriminations;
thoughts of suicide;
age at and reasons for first suicide attempt;
trips to lesbian bars and meeting places for women;
participation in groups of the lesbian movement;
naming a party friendly to lesbians and one hostile to lesbians;
strength of sexual demand and excitability;
homosexual and heterosexual activities - for money, anonymous etc. (scale);
force to sexual contact by other women;
attitude to love and sexuality in general;
age at first masturbation;
age and form of initiation of first orgasm;
age at first homosexual or heterosexual contact;
age at start of cohabitation;
initiative at first lesbian contact;
characteristic of relation with this partner;
use of alcohol or drugs at this first lesbian contact;
sexual practices with partner;
experience value of first sexual contact;
masturbation in the last month;
attitude to masturbation;
number of sexual partners in last year and altogether;
number of steady partner relations with women or men;
polygamy experience during steady partner relation with man or woman;
length of current partnership;
renewed decision for partner;
relationship between the partners;
occupational qualification of partner;
common residence or household with partner;
involvement of partner in housework;
intelligence level of partner;
activity of partner regarding common organization of leisure time;
frequency of being together with partner;
partnership characteristic;
attitude to faithfulness in partnership;
influence of difficult external conditions on partner relation;
reasons against steady partner relation (scale);
future concepts regarding partnership;
attitude to legal recognition of lesbian relations;
interest in feminist questions;
dealing with feminist literature;
approval or rejection of feminist positions;
identification as feminist;
sexual experiences with men and women - active and passive;
number of male sexual partners and time of last heterosexual contact;
attitude to abortion;
personal abortions;
psychological condition;
use of nicotine;
rate of orgasm;
experience value of sexual contacts with women (scale);
thoughts about last sexual intercourse (scale);
marital status;
knowledge about being lesbian before marriage;
personal children and thoughts of foster children;
desire for children;
position of child's father in family life;
erogenous zones;
characteristic of the last lesbian sexual contact;
occasion and place of meeting;
use of force by partner;
personal rape or attempted rape;
rapes in one's circle of friends;
interest in the topic of AIDS;
problems and insecurity in partnership conduct from AIDS and
other infectious diseases;
attitude to an HIV test and personal test;
unemployment;
urban or rural character of place of work or training
as well as main place of residence;
tenancy.