Sentences with phrase «at heterosexual»

When the researcher looked at heterosexual marriages that began after 1975, she learned that couples in which the husband didn't have a full - time job had a 3.3 % chance of divorcing the following year, compared to 2.5 % among couples in which the husband did have a full - time job.

While some studies have evaluated sexting by married couples or young men who have sex with men, [17] the majority of attention is directed at heterosexual adolescents.

In a series of studies, researchers at the University of Buenos Aires1 recently looked at heterosexual men's preferences for women's breasts or women's butts.

Second, the researchers only looked at heterosexual married couples, which means that this study tells us absolutely nothing about how the division of labor is related to sexual frequency in other types of relationships.

Every guy gets a chance to talk to every girl and vice versa (at this point, it's aimed solely at heterosexual singles).

This is an outrage to those who have to connive and compete for attention on the basis of deserving (the victim ploy) or threat (the scare ploy directed at heterosexuals).

Not exact matches

The only surprise risk factor when it comes to demographics is being anything other than heterosexual, though sadly this still makes sense given that most gay or bisexual people will be in the minority at work and may worry about discrimination.

The reason lesbians earn more than heterosexual women has long been a bit of a mystery, but a group of economists at the University of Nevada have an answer.

After that, the researchers tracked the eye movements of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantness of images of gay male and heterosexual couples.

Also, whereas there was no link between the amount of impulsive attraction the non-homophobic men showed toward men (on the manikin task) and the time they spent looking at the images of male gay couples, there was a link among the highly homophobic participants - those who showed a greater impulsive attraction to men also tended to look longer at the images of gay couples than heterosexual couples.

Mr. Anderson protests that sexual promiscuity of any sort, whether homosexual or heterosexual, puts people at risk.

Having spent the past three years (up until August 1991) working in the public health department of a Florida city, I can assure you that AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and that it in fact is being so transmitted at an increasing rate.

In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquAt a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.&raquat least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

Texts such as Leviticus 20:13 («If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death») were frequently cited at the height of the Bloomington controversy, prompting one gay to write to the newspaper and ask: «Is God suggesting that heterosexuals kill us?»

But when heterosexual persons fragment the unitive aspect, they are simultaneously arbitrating against the procreative element, using contraception, or at least a contraceptive mentality, or abortion.

Now I am almost fully healed, and I've began looking at women, which now requires self discipline to avoid heterosexual sins.

having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he loves homosexuals as much as heterosexuals.

Can you imagine if people spoke of the «heterosexual lifestyle» and pointed to footage of women flashing their breasts at men to receive beads at Mardi Gras as the single example?

For years, gay activists have contended that AIDS puts everybody, homosexual and heterosexual alike, at risk.

I object to Stanton Jones» use of the words homosexuality and heterosexuality as equivalent descriptions of different kinds of sexual behavior, because doing so ignores the facts that 1) «heterosexuality» is the result of the allocation of genetic material at conception that determines which reproductive organs people are born with» male or female» and 2) «homosexuality» is sexual action by people who are heterosexual.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

But they differ scarcely at all over the distinctions between heterosexual and homosexual couples.

As sex roles fall, as more and more women and men refuse to play along for profit and social gain at the expense our true selves, the heterosexual box begins to weaken.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

At another point, he writes that the «openness of the contract» between two homosexual males means that such a union will in fact be more durable than a heterosexual marriage because the contract contains an «understanding of the need for extramarital outlets» (emphasis added).

Recalling my past, I can see now that coming out has been a long and puzzling journey out of the heterosexual box, in which I was no more comfortable at age five than I am now at thirty - three.

And I am a lesbian — a woman who has come out of the heterosexual box and into another box, which, as boxes go, is far superior for my life as a responsible person, a Christian woman, in this world at this time.

At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman's work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the «ideal» of heterosexual marriage.

«There is not one shred of evidence of a validated conversion to heterosexual orientation through therapy or Christian conversion and prayer,» he writes.48 At the other end of the spectrum, Richard Lovelace claims that homosexuals can, and indeed are being healed and transformed in their sexual orientation, as Paul himself asserts (1 Cor.

In booklets such as An Evangelical Look at Homosexuality (1977, revised) and Holier - Than - Thou Hocus - Pocus & Homosexuality (1977), Blair asserts that the Bible does not offer judgment on loving, monogamous homosexual activity between exclusive homosexuals (those with no heterosexual propensity).

Homosexual sex can never be as fully mutual as heterosexual vaginal sex at its best.

The Church at this time needs our leadership to address the crisis of marriage for heterosexuals — between divorce and extramarital sexual activity — more than it needs a few ministers to take a stand against gay marriage.

How might we expect a heterosexual to behave if he / she occupied a small room with an attractive person of the opposite sex on a ship deployed at sea for six months?

As far as the idea that heterosexual intercourse was «at least venially sinful» in the early centuries... I'm pretty sure that was the influence of Roman / Greek body / spirit duality.

On the other hand, virginity was highly exalted in the view of many early Christians, and even heterosexual intercourse was looked upon as at least venially sinful by many bishops and theologians (for example Augustine and Gregory the Great).

The queer thing — by which she means the odd thing — about the people at New Hope is that their identity is not that of gays who have become heterosexual but that of gays who are now ex-gays.

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

As Jenell Williams Paris of Messiah College writes in her book The End of Sexual Identity, «Grounding sexual ethics in our humanity more than in contemporary sexual identity categories... comes at a cost to heterosexuals,» because «it puts them in the game as players instead of umpires.»

At the Grammys last night Queen Latifah officiated a mass wedding ceremony — with some couples heterosexual, some gay — followed by a surprise song from Madonna.

You say: The individual lacks stability and also is subject to aids and other STD's at a much higher rate than heterosexuals.

While most people indeed have a heterosexual orientation and identify with a single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with male / female, masculine / feminine, heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.

Hopefully, it is in such spirit that this personal note is written, and in such spirit the heterosexual reader is invited to wonder with me at this point about three possibilities.

And the logic of Barth's argument at this point would seem to be that heterosexuals by their nature should despise members of their own sex.

Justin points out that the church can be a tough environment for singles as it is, and so we have to work harder at creating an environment that is supportive of both heterosexual and homosexual singles.

As a 54 - year - old female confirmed heterosexual, and at the risk of offending my feminist friends, I am a devoted fan of the Swimsuit Issue.

Because they were denied access to legal marriage for so long, many LGBQ people married for the first time at older ages than heterosexual couples, often after living together for many years, making their cohabiting and married relationships pretty similar.

As it turns out, the Pink Power Ranger - loving cousin, now a young man, came out as gay at some point, but my son, also a young man, by all appearances seems to be 100 percent heterosexual (you can ask his girlfriend about that).

We can't readily blame legal or economic barriers, at least if we're heterosexual couples who the state allows to marry, because there aren't that many obstacles left.

I am a particular kind of woman in America: healthy, white, single, heterosexual, childless, and at thirty - nine, still relatively young (though some may disagree).

A small amount, about 10 percent, however, see living together as an alternative to marriage, and a recent study by sociologist Alison Hatch, «Saying I Don't to Matrimony: An Investigation of Heterosexual Couples Who Resist Marriage,» is a revealing look at why couples prefer cohabitation over marriage.