• Along with bisexuality and homosexuality, heterosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual-homosexual continuum. (wikipedia.org)
  • Homosexuality produces fewer babies than heterosexuality. (transsexual.org)
  • healthy, virile heterosexuality against homosexuality (which Cleaver unabashedly called a perversion). (dissentmagazine.org)
  • 2023. Fragile Heterosexuality: A Cross-cultural Study Between Germany and Italy. (gold.ac.uk)
  • The term heterosexual or heterosexuality is usually applied to humans, but heterosexual behavior is observed in all other mammals and in other animals, as it is necessary for sexual reproduction. (wikipedia.org)
  • to unlove men, because expressions of post-heterosexual empowerment deny the struggles and circumstances of patriarchally constructed heterosexuality. (dazeddigital.com)
  • Prior research in the UK and the USA found that heterosexual identity was perceived as more easily compromised than gay identity: a finding dubbed the "Fragile Heterosexuality" effect. (gold.ac.uk)
  • Excuse us, but given that human beings generally reproduce through some form of heterosexual mating, it seems that everyone, including the author of the original post, is a byproduct of heterosexuality. (dcdirtylaundry.com)
  • Not seeing that heterosexuality is politically supported by giving legal, financial, and emotional privilege to heterosexual relationships while legally denying LGBT individuals involved in same-sex relationships housing, jobs, and child custody. (nih.gov)
  • With representative samples from Germany (N = 1236) and Italy (N = 1249), we investigated the fragile heterosexuality effect using participants' agreement with gender-neutral statements about the perceived fragility of sexual orientation of others. (gold.ac.uk)
  • On Wednesday, January 9, 2019, a post at the left-wing French site Mediapart advocated banning heterosexuality by a citizen initiative claiming that it is not a sexual orientation. (dcdirtylaundry.com)
  • In her forties, Rich became a lesbian feminist icon, idolized by crowds who flocked to her readings and talks, renowned for her book on motherhood Of Woman Born and her essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • She explores 'Queer Heterosexuality' and whether there are ways in which straight men can disrupt the dominant paradigm of the straight-masculine and whether this can help to communicate, challenge and influence organisations and individuals perceptions of gender and sexual identities and their perceptions of equality and inclusion in the workplace. (mens-heels-revolution.com)
  • This deployment is crucial and apposite but it can limit the analytical reach of queer theory, neglecting other objects of analysis like heterosexuality. (le.ac.uk)
  • First, it proposes a queering of queer theory in MOS, whereby scholars are alert to and question the potential normativities that such research can produce, opening up a space for exploring how heterosexuality can be queered. (le.ac.uk)
  • Second, we show how queering heterosexuality can be another site where queer theory and politics come together in the MOS field through a shared attempt to rupture sexual and gender binaries, and challenge normative social relations. (le.ac.uk)
  • Queer people generally don't fit heteronormative (the idea that heterosexuality is the 'norm') labels or ideals, and in fact often criticize them. (teljeunes.com)
  • This essay will hopefully not only impel the necessity of gender abolitionism in revolutionary struggles against compulsory heterosexuality, but also a re-articulation of life that "instead of denoting a possible reality" understands life as fundamentally virtual (Parisi 14). (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet homosexual advocates like the Human Rights Campaign want to ban "conversion therapy" because they maintain it would be cruel to encourage a teen with same-sex attractions to veer toward heterosexuality. (wnd.com)
  • Ramasubramanian, S & Jain, P 2009, ' Gender stereotypes and normative heterosexuality in matrimonial ads from globalizing India ', Asian Journal of Communication , vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 253-269. (syr.edu)
  • The article concludes by outlining the political implications of queering heterosexuality for generating modes of organizing in which heterosexuality can be experienced as non-normative and how this might rupture and dismantle heteronormativity. (le.ac.uk)
  • If one concludes, as many feminists have, that heterosexuality is the primary and most powerful mechanism of social control, then understanding its meaning in all forms is imperative if male dominance is ever to be overcome. (theothermccain.com)
  • Unlike any other popstar, Lana Del Rey explains heterosexuality to me, at a time when loving men and being straight has never been more unfashionable. (dazeddigital.com)
  • If you are straight, and believe in the Bible, would you be able to suppress your heterosexuality? (blogspot.com)
  • Could you overcome your heterosexuality and become an " ex-straight " or would you just give in to the way you were made? (blogspot.com)
  • As a result, Del Rey's accounts of late heterosexuality in a late capitalist world were especially abhorred. (dazeddigital.com)
  • Matrimonial ads serve as unobtrusive sites to observe the construction and perpetuation of normative heterosexuality through socio-cultural discourses. (syr.edu)
  • Lecture: The depiction of female heterosexuality, of lesbianism. (ucsc.edu)
  • If heterosexuality, i.e., the interaction between men and women that has kept the species alive for thousands of years, is banned, how does the author expect to see another generation produced? (dcdirtylaundry.com)
  • In that sense, I hope to indicate that the taxonomization of molecular life under the signifier of biology necessarily sexes the body, and in doing so, deploys the structures for which compulsory heterosexuality is able to gain coherence. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • In other words, heterosexuality is the foundation of the social structure of male dominance, and successfully attacking it could bring down the whole house. (theothermccain.com)
  • If the first phrase that comes to a woman's mind when she thinks of heterosexuality is "mechanism of social control," she might just want to take the shortcut to her ultimate destination - over there on the other side of the Mytilini Strait - rather than ruining some unfortunate guy's life by pretending to enjoy heterosexuality. (theothermccain.com)