Often, for a younger girl who feels she is a lesbian but is hesitant to express it safely to someone they can trust, dating boys can be a very mechanical and expected role you play while growing up. This has been the history of many lesbians both in the past and will continue to be so in the future. This is because a good portion of our society are uneducated as to what it means to be a lesbian, and still deny a lesbian's identity as valid. They automatically think of a sexual act and not the profoundness of a relationship that mirrors the heterosexuals