heterosexuality

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

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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. John D. MacDonald

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Jeanette Winterson

We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act. Gore Vidal

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature. Margaret Mead

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. Sigmund Freud

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals. Michel Foucault

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