Sentences with phrase «by heterosexual»

In fact, a few of these studies find that same - sex parents have superior parenting skills and that their children exhibit a few outcomes superior to children raised by heterosexual parents (e.g., Brewaey et al.'s [1997] finding of higher levels of sharing in childcare and parenting skills among lesbian couples; teachers» average higher rating of children with lesbian than heterosexual mothers on affection, responsiveness, and concern for younger children in Steckel [1987]-RRB-.

Despite the idea that there are more egalitarian gender roles in heterosexual relationships, this research indicates more traditional attitudes for the first date — there are higher expectations for men to initiate, plan and pay for the date.1 According to this work, the vast majority of which focuses on first date scripts held by heterosexual undergraduate students, both men and women think that men have greater sexual expectations and are more likely to make a sexual move on the first date.1, 2

Yet female - female kissing by heterosexual women does not seem to garner the same negative response, perhaps due to the varying reasons women report engaging in such behavior.

Earlier this year, a study was released suggesting that children are better off when raised by heterosexual couples than by same - sex couples [1].

Studies comparing groups of children raised by gays and by heterosexual parents find no developmental differences between the two groups of children in four critical areas: their intelligence, psychological adjustment, social adjustment, and popularity with friends.

But when it comes to non-normative sexuality, how can we know what we desire when we live in a culture dominated by the heterosexual male viewpoint?

In this section you will find stories or strips that touched on LGBT themes or the perceptions held by heterosexual society of LGBT people.

It fails to overpower us with its explicitness and length, but not because it was directed by a heterosexual man as if it were a close judo match.

As a femme, she was frequently questioned on how lesbian she was — by heterosexual couples looking to spice up their love life with another woman and even other homosexuals who thought she didn't look lesbian enough.

-RRB- are the main risk group in Russia, but «our studies show that HIV is being spread from this group through the so - called bridging population» — people who are sexual partners of IDUs but not IDUs themselves — to the general population by the heterosexual route, Dukhovlinova says.

In the study of 25,348 individuals in the United Kingdom and 9,206 individuals in Australia, the level of relationship quality reported by gay / lesbian people was as high as that reported by heterosexual people in the United Kingdom, and higher in Australia.

Previous research shows that gay and lesbian individuals are as effective in parenting as heterosexuals, and that children raised by gay or lesbian parents are as well - adjusted as their peers raised by heterosexual parents.

It demonstrated that the women placed greater trust in a gay man's advice about a potential mate — but not in their advice about careers — than in the same advice given by heterosexual individuals.

Why is AIDS rarely transmitted by heterosexual contact in Europe but is said to spread rapidly among heterosexuals in Africa?

Today the virus has spread throughout the world, increasingly by heterosexual sex.

The researchers noted that the children adopted by gay and lesbian parents had more risk factors than those adopted by heterosexual parents.

Indeed, evidence to date suggests home environments provided by lesbian and gay parents support and enable children's psychosocial growth, just as do those provided by heterosexual parents (Patterson, 1995).

I should be clear that I don't actually share this assumption that God's perfect world would ideally only be inhabited by heterosexual traditionally masculine men and heterosexual traditionally feminine women.

ALL adoption should be outlawed, including by heterosexual couples.

The church clergy is dominated by heterosexual married white men.

On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterosexual parents.

The New Testament values of faithfulness, love, sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced by heterosexual couples without children — and by same - sex couples as well.

In the story of Sodom, in Genesis 18, God had ALREADY decided to destroy the city BEFORE the attempted rape of the angels — which incidentally was perpetrated mainly by heterosexuals since ALL the men of the city were involved, and we know that throughout history, gays have only represented about 10 % of the population.

They presuppose that they are dealing with lustful activity freely chosen by heterosexuals (as in Romans 1), or they deal with a humanly destructive activity in the context of idolatry, prostitution, promiscuity, violent rape, seduction of children or violation of guests» rights.

We may begin by excluding all references to Sodom in the Old and New Testaments, since the sin of the Sodomites was homosexual rape, carried out by heterosexuals intent on humiliating strangers by treating them «like women,» thus demasculinizing them.

So, also, we might well wonder whether or not «the homosexual problem» could be rooted in a homophobia frequently experienced by heterosexuals.

Third, Paul's wording makes it plain that he understands homosexual activity as that indulged in by heterosexuals, hence that which is contrary to their own sexual orientation.

However while dating and hook - up apps are openly used by heterosexuals.

Not exact matches

Apple's and Facebook's reproductive benefits policies could also appeal to gay and lesbian couples who want to use a surrogate or a sperm donor to have a baby, or heterosexual couples who incur in vitro fertilization costs not covered by insurance.

It could also have a positive effect on womens» employment and careers by making it easier to balance work with home and childcare obligations — since men in heterosexual marriages still often aren't doing their share on that front.

It only makes it all the more urgent for young people to be told the truth that sexual promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, may endanger their lives, that condoms are by no means a foolproof way to avoid that risk, and that chastity is the best defense.

You can't really define a heterosexual by anything more than as someone whose natural attraction is to members of the opposite sex.

By giving benediction in 1930 to its married heterosexual members purposely seeking sterile sex, the Anglican Church lost, bit by bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the samBy giving benediction in 1930 to its married heterosexual members purposely seeking sterile sex, the Anglican Church lost, bit by bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the samby bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the same.

None of this augurs well for the masculine presence in the ministry — if by masculine we also mean heterosexual.»

When pressed further, they venture: well, sexual relations between two infertile heterosexuals could, by a miracle, yield a child.

«By refusing to sign marriage certificates, Jones «penalizes heterosexual couples who are coming to the church without actually winning anything for same - sex couples,» [Stephanie] Coontz says.»

The belief that the cartoon is lampooning is that homosexuals are made so by their environment; that is correct; but it does so by implying that this belief necessarily implies that heterosexuals are also made so by their environment.

Believing that homosexuals are made so by environment in no way implies that heterosexuals are made so by their environment.

Frank: besides the above sites mentioned by Gary, you may also wish to visit some of the «ex-ex-gay» web sites run by Christian believers that worked for years to be heterosexual and / or celibate.

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.

Those things are not so different suffered by promiscuous heterosexual counterparts who engage in similar behavior, which is part of the point: Abnormal sexual behavior has significant health dangers.

You said, «Those things are not so different suffered by promiscuous heterosexual counterparts who engage in similar behavior, which is part of the point», yet you fail to get the whole point.

Sometimes I imagine him responding by saying, «Who are you to ask me about gay marriage, when you can't even keep your heterosexual marriages together?»

since God made homosexuals, and all these heterosexuals keep producing gay kids and we have evidence of homosexuality occurring in another animals as well as neuroscience and social sciences since 1963 stating that being gay isn't a disease but a natural orientation and since the writers of the bible would have no clue that it could be an orientation (just as they could have no idea that the world isn't flat, not up on pillars, nor is it surrounded by water, nor was the earth created from a leviathan carcass) thus it is permissible and subject to the same statutes heterosexuals are.

I'm just saying if the poster wants to talk about heterosexual relations are a requirement for healthy kids, start by working on the social problems these hypocrites have created and stop using it to prove that Gay Marriage is bad.

Do that homosexual or heterosexual and you will find your desires aligning more with His desires day by day and you eventually will not even miss those sins you so loved before Christ came into your life.

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.

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

According to Ruether, people are not by nature either homosexual or heterosexual.