For those who are strongly oriented homosexually, physical expression of their desires is just as natural as the physical expression
of heterosexual desires is for others.
When queer desire does exist in the narrative present, as in films such as Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble, 1999), it is represented as part of an experiment or «phase», where same - sex desire is positioned as «just practise»
for heterosexual desire.
Surely it's no coincidence that the French title of the film, La vie d'Adèle — Chapitres 1 & 2, added by Kechiche, echoes the title of this book, as well as that of another film: François Truffaut's The Story of Adele H., about obsessive
female heterosexual desire.
Artists like Stanley Spencer RA and Lucian Freud addressed head on, with unprecedented frankness, the nature of
male heterosexual desire, and the fact of the body as simply flesh.
Martin sees how complacent the Church is before the polymorphous manifestation
of heterosexual desire, and he detects a double standard.
You will hear it said, for instance, that the desire for political freedom is a natural human desire, or that
heterosexual desire is natural, or that the desire for God is natural (theologians often say this).
For example, a person who is male biologically and «gendered» as a woman could have
heterosexual desires and thus live with another man.