Dr. Alexandra Jacowitz shared advice for exploring your sexuality in a recent Elite Daily article: “7 Ways to Explore Your Sexuality If You Think You Like Girls.”

Whether you identify as a woman or you were raised to be one, there’s no one way how to know if you like girls. Society conditions women to believe that they can only be attracted to the opposite sex, and if you have spent your life having close friendships with women or exclusively dating men, it can be difficult to tell whether your attraction is sexual, emotional, or a combination of the two. That’s why — when a person wonders, “Do I like girls as more than friends?” — the answer is rarely something that's cut and dry.

Here are the tips Dr. Jacowitz shared in the article to help you explore your sexuality and your attraction to women:

1. Talk to a queer woman or femme: Women’s sexual identity trajectories can be fundamentally different from those of men. Therefore, talking to other queer women about their coming out stories can be a great way to make sense of the complexity of the queer experience.

2. Think back to your high school crushes: Some women have experiences growing up that immediately stick out to them as inherently queer because they were somewhat sexual in nature (i.e. a crush or a shared kiss). However, many queer-identified women have no trace in their adolescence of any budding interest in women. If the latter represents you, it can be helpful to reflect on which relationships were the most emotionally engaging and (even platonically) intimate.

3. Imagine hooking up with a girl: Fantasizing can be a great way to explore your sexuality without risking anything. You can live in your mind and let it take you wherever it wants you to go

4. Watch some queer, woman-directed porn: Watching ethically created queer porn made by women can be a great way to explore a more authentic queer sex experience that is unadulterated by the male gaze. This can also be an opportunity to tune into your body’s signals and focus on how you feel in the moment.

5. Switch your Bumble & Tinder settings: It can be a scary step but ultimately might give you a lot of data about yourself. Not only can swiping give you an idea of who you gravitate towards but your level of engagement in the process overall might be very telling.

You can read the full article at Elite Daily.