Heterosexuality

Heterosexuality consists of sexual behavior, practices, and identity predicated on a primary preference or desire for the opposite sex.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. ~ Alfred Kinsey

Heteronormativity: Naturalizes the heterosexual identity, or privileges it as timeless and universal.

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• The dilemma of traditional sex research lay in the unconscious, but unquestiongly assumed division into opposing drives and hereditary factors. . . The division into heterosexuality and homosexuality, into hetersexuals and homosexuals, is also an artefact that rests on a grave error, namely, on the assumption that a fundamentally different model is necessary to explain heterosexual and homosexual behavior. The entire investigation of etiology was ideologically loaded beforehand because it separated a segment of the sexual contiuum and attempted to make analyses with the help of fundamentally different concepts.
  • Rolf Gindorf, "Scientific ideologies in change: Fear of Homosexuality as an Intellectual Event", 1977.

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• Compulsory heterosexuality: The idea that heterosexuality is preserved by gender and sexual binaries and other social forces. This concept battles the idea that we choose to be heterosexual and instead says that heterosexuality is a compulsory (or enforced) state of being.
  • Michael Kimmel and The Stony Book Sexualities Research Group (editors), Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (2004), 2nd Edition (2015), p. 680

• Heteronormativity: Naturalizes the heterosexual identity, or privileges it as timeless and universal.
  • Michael Kimmel and The Stony Book Sexualities Research Group (editors), Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (2004), 2nd Edition (2015), p. 681

• Heterosexism: Describes the biases and prejudices that favor heterosexual people or relationships.
  • Michael Kimmel and The Stony Book Sexualities Research Group (editors), Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (2004), 2nd Edition (2015), p. 681

• Heterosexuality: The term describing emotional, affectional, sexual, or physical attraction to members of the opposite sex.
  • Michael Kimmel and The Stony Book Sexualities Research Group (editors), Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society (2004), 2nd Edition (2015), p. 681

• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
  • Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948).

• It would encourage clearer thinking on these matters if persons were not characterized as hetereosexual or homosexual, but as individuals who have had certain amounts of heterosexual experience and certain amounts of homosexual experience. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.
  • Alfred Kinsey^{[specific citation needed]}

See also

• Bisexuality
• Homosexuality
• Sexuality

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Heterosexuality on Wikipedia
• The dictionary definition of heterosexuality on Wiktionary
• Media related to Heterosexuality on Wikimedia Commons