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Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality meaning
The state of being sexually and romantically attracted primarily or exclusively to persons of the opposite sex. | Sexual activity with a person of the opposite sex.
Synonyms of Heterosexuality
Example sentences (20)
Compulsory heterosexuality and gender conformity is so manufactured, so fragile, that it requires heavy policing and enforcement.
The legislation would prohibit mental health professionals from engaging youths in the scientifically discredited practice of trying to convert people who are LGBTQ+ to heterosexuality and traditional gender expectations.
And the time when he, as the short-tenure mayor of Hell, Mich., declared heterosexuality illegal.
Finding the master doc helped me break free of the spell of compulsory heterosexuality.
Heteronormativity naturalizes heterosexuality so much that any other relationships are seen as mimicries of heterosexual ones.
The TV show analyzes itself for you with these offhand comments by the characters, so you don’t have to do any of the hard work of thinking, and they don’t have to do any of the hard work of delving into the complexity of contemporary heterosexuality.
In studying LGBTQ people, there should be a conversation around heterosexuality, and when discussing race, white privilege should be included.
I’ve never been married, and that seems to be developing into a detriment in the eyes of people I know … as if my never having been married says something about my ability to commit, my stability, my reliability, my heterosexuality?
Researchers believe that rather than evolving after heterosexuality as previously thought, homosexual behaviour was part of our earliest DNA.
The first issue ran a lead story about a new academic department somewhere in the University of California system created to challenge the notion of gender and heterosexuality as a patriarchal construct.
The historical suggestion of 'heterosexuality as the norm for society' has prevented the idea of us evolving as bisexual from being considered in the past, Ms Monk said.
Further deluded thinking has Harris openly admitting that he believes that “homosexuality” is a life choice as opposed to a genetic predisposition, like heterosexuality.
Instead of existing to demonstrate Batman’s heterosexuality, she was a lesbian, formerly discharged from the US army under “don’t ask don’t tell,” now in a happy relationship with a female Gotham police detective.
It’s a narrow notion of heterosexuality – one that does a good job excusing abusive behavior.
The Sesame Workshop’s post is implying that a show where we have seen happily married heterosexual puppet couples doesn’t have sexuality when it still presents heterosexuality as a viable thing.
What science or logic proves that any sexuality besides heterosexuality are neither a choice or a disorder.
Amazingly, the woman happened to be Ginsberg's girlfriend that he was living with during one of his forays into heterosexuality.
Author Edmund White insists that Smith and Truscott were trying to assert their own heterosexuality by referring to the events and people in derogatory terms.
Barlow observes that, in the West, heterosexuality is the primary site for the production of gender: a woman truly becomes a woman only in relation to a man's heterosexual desire.
Consequently, anyone who differs from the normalcy of heterosexuality is deemed deviant or abhorrent. citation Heterosexism is a form of bias or discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.