Some
heterosexual women report kissing other women as part of the college social scene or for men's attention, while others do so to experiment or explore potential same - sex
desires.1 A 2012 study found that both women and men perceive women who kiss other women in
heterosexual spaces (for example, bars that
heterosexual individuals frequent) as more promiscuous than those who kiss a man, and that women and men perceive such women as more likely to be
heterosexual than bisexual or lesbian.2 In some ways, this last finding may suggest that women and men do not always perceive
female -
female kissing as necessarily an expression of women's same - sex
desire.