Set 3 - Quarter 2

Wait, What's Your Sign?

My dearest Sapphic Divas,

HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK!! I don’t know about you, but it is so good to once again have one week of being visible before I turn invisible for the year again. Driving around in traffic is about to be so much easier. I’m also excited to finally see more of you in the app! (btw, if you don’t have a pic/avatar already set up for yourself, now could be a good time to show off how stunning you all are 👀)

We have some timely results to show you this week, so let’s get started!

Average Age at Coming Out

Let’s take it back to the beginning: maybe you met another sapphic woman who was just really cool and you wanted to be just like them because they were just a really great person, maybe you read the lesbian masterdoc and some things started clicking, or maybe you watched Kim Possible and were a little too attached to She-go. Whatever the moment was when you realized you may be part of the sapphic community, we’re glad that you awoke to find yourself part of the community! There is an incredibly wide range of experiences that people have with figuring out their sexuality, so we want to take a second and say that whenever and however you came out is wonderful and personal.

We saw an overall average at around 19 years old! Younger users demonstrated a lower age of coming out, and older users a slightly older age. I have a couple of thoughts as to why this might be. The first being that if you are a younger user on our app, then you figured it out early and so we see a lower average as a result. Older user groups will subsequently then include users who came out later in life and the results will reflect these experiences as well. The second is that there is less stigma about being sapphic now than previous decades, and so younger people may be more empowered to explore their sexuality and come out at a younger age than older generations. For that, we can thank the sapphics who came before us and fought for visibility and inclusivity, we have benefitted greatly from your efforts.

The results for sexual identity groups were interesting, but not entirely different from one another. The average guess was around 18-19 for all groups, but queer users came out at a younger age than bisexuals and lesbians. I think this might be related to my previous point that younger people are more empowered to come out at a younger age, coupled with the relatively new reclamation of the queer label. The queer label is often adopted by younger people, and thus the younger age at coming out. Regardless, those late teens to early 20s years are very formative for many people!

420 on 4/20 (or 4/21 I guess)

Up next and superrrr timely is the prevalence of getting high at least once per week! I guess it’s good we asked this before this week because this week might have had an inflated average lol.

Across all users, we saw an average of about 40% who reported getting high at least once per week. Younger users had higher averages, with older users dropping about 10%. I was personally a little surprised at how high that number was (no pun intended), as it seems were many others since right around half of users guessed on the low side. We still saw of 60% of people not getting high at least once per week, so it’s okay if we’re not, uh, celebrating (?) today.

We did have one difference by identity group, with queer users reporting an average just shy of 10% higher than bisexuals and lesbians. If you have any ideas as to why this is, you should let us know in our chat forum, we love hearing your ideas!

Astrology Babes

I think astrology can be really interesting sometimes. I want to say that it’s just for fun and giggles but I would be lying if I didn’t acknowledge the times when my horoscope has been really specific and in a really disorienting way lol. And ultimately, nothing brings me more joy than seeing someone’s sign get guessed immediately. If anyone wants to analyze my chart (please please please) let me know ;))

No serious surprise that astrology was most popular with younger age groups. That would be because younger people have Neptune placements in Aquarius and Pisces, which are more open to alternative frameworks and fluid identities (this could explain a lot idk). Older generations are shaped by Saturn or other earth-heavy signs, which are tied to structure and skepticism, so I think this makes a lot of sense.

I guess it could also be due to the increased popularity of viral astrology readings on social media and the general online atmosphere that has allowed younger people to engage with astrology content, but that’s so much more mundane, isn’t it?

We didn’t see huge group differences by identity but queer users were slightly less into astrology! Funnily, the queer user group had the highest average guess though, so stereotype busted maybe? Or maybe just very accurate guessers! Ultimately though, the percentage of Americans in general who are into astrology is significantly lower than any of our user groups (a little under 30%), so maybe this stereotype is still true lol

That’s all I have for you today! Tell us if you’re curious about any other stats, I’d love to dig further if you’re curious :)

XOXO SapphicSavvy

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