heterosexual
of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality, sexual desire or behavior directed toward people of the other binary gender.
Biology. of or relating to different sexes: heterosexual fraternal twins.
a person who is sexually or romantically attracted primarily to people of the other binary gender.
Origin of heterosexual
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How to use heterosexual in a sentence
In heterosexual couples, it often makes financial sense for the woman to be the one to leave her job or risk losing it by taking on childcare duties.
These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They're Suing After Being Fired | Eliana Dockterman | March 3, 2021 | TimeJust as the disease continues to claim more lives, quarantine-linked domestic violence is claiming more victims—and not just women in heterosexual relationships.
Domestic Violence Is a Pandemic Within the COVID-19 Pandemic | Jeffrey Kluger | February 3, 2021 | TimeThe next step is equality for children born of heterosexual couples and those of same-sex parents.
Final vote on Switzerland ‘Marriage for All’ bill to take place Friday | Philip Van Slooten | December 16, 2020 | Washington BladeIt does, after all, feature a heterosexual romance between its crossdressing title character and the military leader whose battalion she joins after disguising herself as a boy.
The journey continued from The Real World to fatherhood — after he discovered a decade late that a woman he’d had a teenage heterosexual relationship with had given birth to his son.
However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
Freaking Out About Age Gaps in Gay Relationships Is Homophobic | Samantha Allen | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIsolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.
“It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people,” he writes.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed | Melissa Leon | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMen, particularly white, heterosexual men, are undeniably in charge.
The children were assessed over time and those results were matched to children from heterosexual couples.
Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.
Ulysses | James JoyceHomosexual Eros has a different finality than heterosexual Eros.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinHomosexual choice of object is originally more natural to narcism than the heterosexual.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis | Sigmund FreudNearly all heterosexual shoe-fetichists seem, however, to be equally attracted by high heels.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) | Havelock EllisEliminating all these, there remain 44 heterosexual captures of adults.
Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor | Henry S. Fitch
British Dictionary definitions for heterosexual
/ (ˌhɛtərəʊˈsɛksjʊəl) /
a person who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex
of or relating to heterosexuality
- Compare homosexual
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