het·er·o·sex·u·al·i·ty

(hĕt′ə-rō-sĕk′sho͞o-ăl′ĭ-tē)

1. Sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex.

2. Sexual activity with another of the opposite sex.

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heterosexuality

(ˌhɛtərəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælɪtɪ)

(Biology) sexual attraction to or sexual relations with a person or persons of the opposite sex. Compare homosexuality

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het•er•o•sex•u•al•i•ty

(ˌhɛt ər əˌsɛk ʃuˈæl ɪ ti)

n.

sexual desire or behavior directed toward persons of the opposite sex.

[1895–1900]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

heterosexuality - a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex

heterosexualism, straightness

sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"

Translations

heteroseksualiteit

مغايرة

heterosexualitat

Heterosexualität

ετεροφυλοφιλία

aliseksamo

heterosexualidad

heteroseksuaalisuusheterous

hétérosexualité

הטרוסקסואליות

heteroseksualnost

heteroszexualitás

eterosessualità

heteroseksualiteit

heteroseksualizm

heterossexualidade

heterosexualitate

гетеросексуальность

heteroseksualnostхетеросексуалност

heterosexualitet

รักต่างเพศ

heteroseksüellik

heterosexuality

[ˈhetərəʊˌseksjʊˈælɪtɪ] N → heterosexualidad f

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heterosexuality

[ˌhɛtərəʊsɛkʃuˈælɪti] n → hétérosexualité f

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heterosexuality

n → Heterosexualität f

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het·er·o·sex·u·al·i·ty

n. heterosexualidad.

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References in periodicals archive

If, as some critics have recently suggested, the transvestism of the Renaissance stage reinforced a cultural subtext of homoeroticism, was that subsumed in the Restoration into a pervasive discourse of heterosexuality? Although Howe does not address this issue directly, her focus is predominately on heterosexual relations both within the plays and between actresses and playwrights.

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700

Sixteen years after the retrospective, I write these sentences in memory of my heterosexuality. There is much to memorialize; it will take a lifetime.

Jasper Johns: 'In Memory of My Feelings' - Frank O'Hara, 1961

(4,5) In summary, the major findings of the Laumann Report are that homosexuality is not a stable trait and that it tends spontaneously to convert into heterosexuality as an individual gets older; that sexual identity is not fixed at adolescence but continues to change over the course of life and that there is no evidence for homosexuality being innate.

Homosexuality misrepresented

never accepted a gay identity--'Heterosexuality is God's design,' he says--and today he is a leading spokesman for young Christians rejecting homosexuality.

Nuggets & bites

After recriminalizing same-sex relations in 1934, the government prosecuted both workers and intellectuals to enforce compulsory heterosexuality and appropriated medical language to provide scientific justification for the deportation of homosexuals to Siberia.

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent.

Relatedly, though less prominently, Goldberg holds that sexual orientation itself, either in concept or in fact, did not exist in the Renaissance ("homo- and heterosexuality ...

Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities

He pushes the Church's specific concerns about homosexuality aside by saying it has no more to do with homosexuality than with heterosexuality, because in both cases the priest must reach affective maturity.

Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P

How does this affect the institution of marriage or heterosexuality? What insight might this give us about the different social pressures men and women face?

What women want

As heterosexuality became more liberated, so a greater toleration of homosexuality developed.

City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972. (Reviews)

"The result," he continues, "is a brazen propaganda vehicle designed to replace the reservations most Americans still have toward homosexuality with powerful feelings of sympathy, guilt over past 'homophobia'--and ultimately the complete and utter acceptance of homosexuality as equivalent in every way to heterosexuality."

Hollywood's attack on society