Editing Anal sex (section)

==Female to female==
[[Image:Wiki-analoral.png|thumb|right|A woman performing [[anilingus]] on another woman]]
With regard to [[Lesbian sexual practices|lesbian sexual practice]]s, anal sex includes anal fingering, use of a dildo or other sex toys, or anilingus.<ref name="Newman" /><ref name="Loulan">{{cite book |author=JoAnn Loulan|title=Lesbian Sex |isbn=0-933216-13-0 |publisher=The University of California |date=1984 |page=53 |access-date=February 3, 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS0EAQAAIAAJ |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310000428/https://books.google.com/books?id=bS0EAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>

There is less research on anal sexual activity among [[women who have sex with women]] compared to couples of other sexual orientations. In 1987, a non-scientific study (Munson) was conducted of more than 100 members of a lesbian social organization in Colorado. When asked what techniques they used in their last ten sexual encounters, lesbians in their 30s were twice as likely as other age groups to engage in anal stimulation (with a finger or dildo).<ref name=Carroll/> A 2014 study of partnered lesbian women in Canada and the U.S. found that 7% engaged in anal stimulation or penetration at least once a week; about 10% did so monthly and 70% did not at all.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Jacqueline N. |last2=Byers |first2=E. Sandra |title=Beyond Lesbian Bed Death: Enhancing Our Understanding of the Sexuality of Sexual-Minority Women in Relationships |journal=Journal of Sex Research |date=2014 |volume=51 |issue=8 |pages=893–903 |doi=10.1080/00224499.2013.795924 |pmid=23924274|s2cid=205443248 |issn=0022-4499}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=February 2025}} Anilingus is also less often practiced among female same-sex couples.<ref name="Zenilman & Shahmanesh">{{cite book |title=Sexually Transmitted Infections: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment |publisher=[[Jones & Bartlett Learning|Jones & Bartlett Publishers]] |year=2011 |pages=329–330 |access-date=November 4, 2012 |isbn=978-0495812944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lO5BND02eBwC&pg=PA329 |author1=Jonathan Zenilman |author2=Mohsen Shahmanesh |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312224711/https://books.google.com/books?id=lO5BND02eBwC&pg=PA329 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author-link2=Janet Lever |vauthors=Diamant AL, Lever J, Schuster M |title=Lesbians' Sexual Activities and Efforts to Reduce Risks for Sexually Transmitted Diseases |journal=J Gay Lesbian Med Assoc |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=41–8 |date=Jun 2000 |doi=10.1023/A:1009513623365 |s2cid=140505473 }}</ref>