Sentences with phrase «becoming heterosexual»

William Haseltine, then a pathologist at Harvard University, argued that the virus was fast becoming a heterosexual disease.

A number of therapists are continuing to offer gay and bisexual clients help to becoming heterosexual, despite a total lack of evidence that it is possible.

A number of therapists are continuing to offer gay and bisexual clients help in becoming heterosexual, despite a lack of evidence that the treatment is safe or in any way beneficial.

Rather than becoming heterosexual, men and women become part of a new identity group in which it is almost the norm to succumb to temptation and return to ex-gay ministry over and over again.

According to one of the ministers who backed the gay rights amendment from the beginning: «The real, crucial question in all this is: Can the church's ministry be directed to gays without demanding that they become heterosexual?»

«We are taught to become heterosexual,» and to refuse to accept that teaching is to strike a blow against an authoritarian social order.

By insisting that Christian homosexuals either become heterosexual or live celibate forever

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.

Most of the remaining 25 percent become heterosexual, also without a continuation of the disorder, and those individuals in whom gender identity disorder persists into adulthood may develop either a homosexual or heterosexual orientation.

Not exact matches

Fifteen years ago, five successful, talented gay men set their sights on helping some heterosexual men become a little more fabulous.

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.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

It has to do with how heterosexuals become more open to gay and lesbian people.

As creating heterosexuals didn't work, they are now trying to help homosexuals become asexuals.

The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.

How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusively heterosexual lifestyle, and remain unwilling to explore and develop your homosexual potential?

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.

John Stott said that the most convincing argument, however, is not these sets of verses to be used in a proof text manner, but rather the single affirmation of heterosexual marriage to be found in Genesis 2:24 — «That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.»

Regardless of your position on homosexuality, when you consider the numbers, it becomes clear that gay marriage would have very little effect on an «institution» that we heterosexuals have done a fine job of screwing up on our own.

We need of course to remember that though any sex outside of heterosexual marriage is gravely wrong you must have full knowledge and free consent in order for this to become a mortal sin.

Heterosexual men, as well as homosexual men and women, became aroused while viewing attractive members of their preferred sex engaged in nonsexual activities, such as walking on a beach.

Asia, for example, once had an epidemic driven mainly by sex work and injecting drug use, but heterosexual sex in China and Indonesia, each of which has enormous populations, now has become a major mode of transmission.

In one study of heterosexual African couples in which one partner was HIV - positive, the HIV - negative partners who took Truvada had a 75 % lower risk of becoming infected compared with those taking placebo.

In Baeten's study, which included 4,747 heterosexual African couples in which one partner was HIV - positive, the HIV - negative partners who took Truvada had a 75 % lower risk of becoming infected compared with those taking placebo.

While most 20th - century couplings were either formed in workplaces and colleges or through friends and families, online dating sites and dating apps are fast becoming the most common way of meeting partners and now account for about 20 % of heterosexual couplings and more than two - thirds of same - sex couplings in the US.

Finding sex online has become as easy as ordering food and the ensuing hookup culture, privileging whoever cares less, is having a negative impact on heterosexual women.

Though heterosexual dating activity becomes quite common by mid to late.

They concluded that among heterosexual couples who met in 2009, the internet had become the third most common way of making initial contact — behind introductions from friends, but almost on a par with encounters in bars and restaurants.

His desperation to smooth the choppiness of the story and format is palpable in the short - selling of the Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) character (and Aragorn's horse who, without much in - text warning, becomes a key character) and the desire to infuse heterosexual romance (with both Arwen and Miranda Otto's Eowyn) into Tolkien's sexually sterile universe.

Heterosexual entanglements are followed by homosexual ones (featuring Sting), and the film becomes an odd dither of seductions and secret flings.

In his heterosexual relationships, he pushed his finger far into his partner's throat and ejaculated when she gagged or became angry.

Game developers have become accustomed to creating games which their assumed heterosexual male audience will relate to and the way they do that is to insert heterosexual subplots.

Art historian Caroline A. Jones echoes that sentiment in an essay titled «Finishing School: John Cage and the Abstract Expressionist Ego,» wherein she explains how the movement became a celebration of «the masculine solitary whose staunchly heterosexual libido drove his brush.»

Both groups rely heavily on local landmarks to navigate, which means they tend to become lost easier than heterosexual men.

For many men in modern heterosexual marriages, the tendency to become quiet and withdraw during conflict is born out of a well - intended desire to focus on the positive, a propensity towards not wanting to escalate things further or increase the discord with their spouse.

Just last month, a new study reported that between 1975 and 2000, American couples of all types (heterosexual, gay, and lesbian) became significantly more monogamous.1 Among the study's many findings, the changing face of marital monogamy was particularly surprising.

A recent article on Slate.com, by sociologist Mark Regnerus at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses how males are becoming underrepresented on many college campuses and in the workplace, and are thus likely to call the shots in their (heterosexual) relationships when it comes to sex.

Having worked with many couples where one spouse comes to acknowledge his (her) homosexuality, it has become apparent that the issues are not any different than those besetting heterosexual couples.

At the risk of stating the obvious, becoming a parent is more complicated for same - sex couples than for heterosexual folks.

LGBTIQ people are at much greater risk of becoming depressed or feeling anxious compared with heterosexual people.

Homosexual and bisexual people are up to three times more likely to become depressed than heterosexuals, and twice as likely to fall victim to anxiety.2

Same sex or heterosexual couples who have lived together for over two years and single applicants can apply to become permanent carers.Permanent carers are individuals who help to make a positive difference to children's lives, enabling growth and developing their potential despite their difficult start in life.

Among the heterosexual married individuals who met the selection criteria, 5.4 % dropped out of the study due to death, 4.6 % became divorced or widowed, and 3.3 % failed to respond for various reasons (e.g., refusal to participate) in one of three study waves of interest.