A novel study has revealed that nearly 4 million adults in California have admitted to have been a victim of physical or sexual violence at the hands of a spouse, companion or other intimate partner.

Under the new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, of those victims, nearly 1 million plus revealed being forced to have sex by an intimate partner.

Researchers discovered that something unexpected in the survey, posting that rates of violent relationships among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in California, who are almost twice susceptible to experience violence as heterosexual adults.

To be very precise, 27.9 percent of all lesbian or gay adults revealed facing IPV in their adult lives.

In addition, it discovered that the rate of reported IPV is significantly higher among bisexual adults, touching 40.6 percent compared to a mere 16.7 percent of heterosexual adults reported incidences of IPV.

"These findings should cause us to reconsider our assumptions about the root causes of violence, even as we redouble our efforts to eradicate it," quoted, study's lead author, Elaine Zahnd, a sociologist and senior research scientist at the Public Health Institute, which partners with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in conducting the California Health Interview Survey.