Table 3.

Lifetime Prevalence of Contact Sexual Violence, Physical Violence, and/or Stalking by an Intimate Partner by Sexual Orientation, U.S. Women, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010 –2012

	Heterosexual			Bisexual			Lesbian
Type of violence	Weighted percentage	95% CI	Estimated number of victims^a	Weighted (%)	95% CI	Estimated number of victims^a	Weighted percentage	95% CI	Estimated number of victims^a
Contact sexual violence,^b physical violence, and/or stalking	37.2	[36.1, 38.3]	34,566	59.8^*^,BH,BL	[52.7, 66.5]	1,806	46.3	[37.4, 55.4]	777
Contact sexual violence^b	16.4	[15.6, 17.3]	15,248	35.2^*^,BH,BL	[28.9, 42.1]	1,064	19.4	[12.1, 29.7]	325
Physical violence	32.4	[31.3, 33.4]	30,104	50.2^*^,BH	[43.3, 57.2]	1,518	39.8	[31.2, 49.1]	668
Stalking	9.7	[9.0, 10.4]	8,978	21.0^*^,BH	[16.0, 27.0]	635	—	—	—
Contact sexual violence,^b physical violence, and/or stalking with IPV-related impact^c	27.6	[26.6, 28.6]	25,644	43.5^*^,BH,BL	[36.8, 50.5]	1,314	30.7	[22.4, 40.5]	515

Note. CI = confidence interval; BH = bisexual women compared with heterosexual women; BL = bisexual women compared with lesbians. Em dash indicates estimate is not reported; relative standard error > 30% or cell size < 20.

In thousands.

Contact sexual violence includes rape, being made to penetrate someone else, sexual coercion, and/or unwanted sexual contact.

Includes experiencing any of the following: being fearful, concerned for safety, any posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, injury, need for medical care, need for housing services, need for victim advocate services, need for legal services, missed at least 1 day of work or school, and contacting a crisis hotline. For those who experienced rape or were made to penetrate someone else, it also includes having contracted a sexually transmitted infection or having become pregnant. Intimate partner violence-related impact questions were assessed in relation to specific perpetrators, without regard to the time period in which they occurred, and asked in relation to any form of intimate partner violence experienced (contact sexual violence, physical violence, stalking, psychological aggression, and reproductive/sexual control) in that relationship.

p < .05.