Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on lesbian women's sexual health.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on lesbian women's sexual health. From this research it is clear that the health needs of lesbian women have been described as one of the most ignored areas as far as health care is concerned. As a consequence, Edwards argues that it is important that they are provided with an accessible, impartial as well as an appropriately sensitive care that relies on the deconstruction of the erroneous assumption of lesbians as particular kinds of women with specific health needs related to their sexuality. Edwards highlights that lesbian women are not in any way different from other women, but socially-created notions of lesbianism generally bring about experiences that affect their use of as well as treatment by the various health services. It is as a result of Women's Sexual Health neglect as an area of practice that lesbian women have been thought to be at negligible risk for cases such as sexually transmitted infections and cervical neoplasia. According to Dolan, they face a number of risks that may affect their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual healths.In terms of physical health, sexual practices among lesbians lead to STIs as well as other physical injuries, some of which are almost unknown within the heterosexual population. According to Ferris et.al, a number of publications have, nonetheless, observed that cases of STIs are not commonly reported among lesbian women. This observation has, however, failed to take into consideration that 75%-90% of lesbian women have had heterosexual relationships at some point in their life.