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People of all sexual orientations who have ever had a same-sex sexual partner are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...findings, published online last week in the American Journal of Public Health, showed that sexual minorities—gay men, lesbians, bisexuals—and heterosexuals who have had same-sex partners are at a greater risk for developing PTSD than the general population...
Maltreatment and interpersonal violence—such as non-consensual sex, domestic violence, and kidnapping—of sexual minorities leads to the increased rate of PTSD in this population...
...It’s known that sexual minorities have high exposures to violence” and “high rates of mental health,” said the study’s lead author, Andrea L. Roberts ’88, a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at HSPH...
...premise of gender-neutral housing is that women are safer with other women, that men are potential sexual predators, and that sexual attraction is between members of opposite sex only,” she says. “Those assumptions are outdated and often don’t apply...