Sentences with phrase «heterosexuality as»

There are practical reasons to be wary of heterosexuality as well.

Law: One might well conclude that commending heterosexuality as a preferred sexual life is educationally legitimate, and then ask: But what about the law?

Any argument for heterosexuality as a preferred sexual choice does not rest on how this or that heterosexual life works out.

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.

These range from the authoritarian «prohibitionists,» who consider homosexuality an abomination warranting legal punishment, to the anarchistic «liberationists,» who reject the very distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality as merely semantics.

Not exact matches

In her pivotal article on «Compulsory Heterosexuality,» Adrienne Rich highlights the isolation that many women feel as they risk this separation:

The former is understood as dislike of homosexuality [1] and the latter as the belief that heterosexuality is the norm.

And paganism in analogy would be as «bad» as «heterosexuality».

A great number of these mechanisms have been preserved evolutionarily in humans, just as they are for every other behavioral trait we know (including heterosexuality).

Science has long regarded sexual orientation — and that's all sexual orientations, including heterosexuality — as a phenotype.

But, «pedophilia» is highly dysfunctional, and being gay wasn't, in fact, being gay seemed as much «born that way» as heterosexuality, or being a blonde, or having good spatial acuity.

Taken on its own terms, read in the original languages, placed back into its historical context, the Bible is ho - hum on homosexuality, unless — as with heterosexuality — injustice and abuse are involved.

The society's «failure» to put homosexuality on a moral par with heterosexuality is not a result of homophobia, as that term is now recklessly used, but of a human refusal to accept the end of history.

I appreciate Michael Hannon's piece a good deal, but I fail to see why «heterosexuality» is necessarilytied to pride as a structure, or that Hannon has made the case that it is.

Homosexual bonding may be deeply valuable and, as noted, reach ranges of the human heart that heterosexuality can not.

«Heterosexuality» only dethrones Jesus as the norm if we think that Jesus» life and ministry somehow subvert the normative (creation) order of opposite - sex sexual desires, even if we do not use the language of «orientation» to describe those desires.

I don't necessarily want to prejudice the question toward heterosexuality; I can imagine a sensitive male homosexual commending the unusually close bonding and intense sexuality of that relationship as the preferred life choice.

Having said that, it is obvious that constructing the case for heterosexuality must be as complex and nuanced as the cultural and spiritual trajectories of the human spirit.

To the extent that sexuality is not fixed, we ought set the «ideal» as heterosexuality, and not ask litttle boys and girls in 1st grade who they will marry when they grow up... a boy or a girl.

But heterosexuality, in its pretensions to act as the norm for assessing our sexual customs, is marked by something even worse: pride, which St. Thomas Aquinas classifies as the queen of all vices.

In doing so, they were forced also to trade the robust natural law tradition for the recently constructed standard of «psychiatric normality,» with «heterosexuality» serving as the new normal for human sexuality.

Your heterosexuality doesn't offend me as long as you don't try to force it on me.

And yet, as I have argued throughout, in our own day homosexuality deserves the abominable label, and heterosexuality does too.

Heterosexuality is — not, of course, as though we can have one without the other.

Just imagine, if you can, how it would feel if the universe as you see it were different and it was heterosexuality that was a sin.

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

As queer theorist Hanne Blank recounts, «This new concept [of heterosexuality], gussied up in a mangled mix of impressive - sounding dead languages, gave old orthodoxies a new and vibrant lease on life by suggesting, in authoritative tones, that science had effectively pronounced them natural, inevitable, and innate.»

First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct.

As we reflect on that image, we might consider how we make our images of sexuality, heterosexuality, or homosexuality into idols.

This principle is applied by Barth and others in such a way as to place homosexuality in the wrong when contrasted with heterosexuality.

Those participants who reported their heterosexuality despite having hidden same - sex desires were also the most likely to show hostility toward gay individuals, including self - reported anti-gay attitudes, endorsement of anti-gay policies and discrimination such as supporting harsher punishments for homosexuals.

-- It's like heternormativity, but instead of using it to identify when heterosexuality is seen as the default sexual orientation, you can use it whenever your best friend...

You have to admit there are many people who still doesn't know much about though bisexuality is just a natural sexual orientation as heterosexuality.

However, as is the case with all things in life, there are those that are opposed to any form of sexuality if it is not heterosexuality.

As expected, the music is the best part, continuing The Lonely Island's tradition of combining catchy beats with silly lyrics to create songs that rival most stuff on the radio, like the recently released «I'm So Humble» and a Macklemore - inspired track about equal rights in which Conner reaffirms his heterosexuality after every line («I'm not gay!»).

The best Bond films were wise enough not to take themselves too seriously, generally aware that they were selling a fantasy package of moral escapism, aspirational heterosexuality and killer theme tunes, the majority of which have endured as richer cultural ar...

Conversion therapy (also known as reparative therapy) is a formal attempt to change a gay person's sexual orientation, from homosexuality to heterosexuality.

I desperately wanted to believe in the myth of my heterosexuality, too, and I clung to it as well.

I only mention all of that as a means of establishing that heterosexuality has been and continues to be centered in video games.

Heterosexuality muscles in with a confrontation of organs that shuffle the dominance between male and female to create expectations that on paper, for all their impendence, read more as fervid than dangerous.

In fact, instances of women's same - sex kissing can be seen as reinforcing their heterosexuality — they are not lesbian or bisexual because they closed off to the experience, but instead because they have tried it and decided it was not for them.

Many of the recent changes to Russian laws that have been infringing on the rights of LGBTQ individuals have taken place under the guise of «protecting children» from potential sources of sexual abuse and from learning about same - sex sexuality as a «viable» alternative to heterosexuality.