Sentences with phrase «of heterosexual desire»

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.

Not exact matches

Some persons experience sexual desire and attraction only or primarily to persons of the same sex; whatever they are, they are not heterosexual.

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.

In our history, in our society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held within the social order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.

It can provide guidance for both heterosexual and homosexual Christians in choosing faithful expressions of sexual desire.

Usually such desires were for those of the opposite sex, but even that line was blurry, because as it turned out, once the generative purpose of sex had been severed, it often mattered very little who the heterosexual's mutual masturbatory partner was.

Nevertheless, as a general rule, identifying as a heterosexual person today amounts to declaring oneself a member of the «normal group,» against which all deviant sexual desires and attractions and temptations are to be measured.

The study showed that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to report feeling pressure from the media to look attractive, to avoid having sex because of how they felt about their bodies, and to desire cosmetic surgery.

«On average, heterosexual women believe that heterosexual men desire ultra-thin women,» said Meltzer, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at SMU.

Similarly, a 2012 study of 160 U.S. and German college students published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that those who called themselves heterosexual, despite admitting same - sex desires, were more likely to be hostile toward gay individuals that those who did not report such desires.

Bisexual people may feel at odds with their desire to begin a family and struggle with the added question of whether to have children with a same - sex partner and face homophobia in their family unit, or choose a heterosexual relationship to start a family and have to grieve the dream or the desire to have a same - sex partner in their family unit.

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.

... [Chungking Express] imparts a sense of distance mixed with tenderness, and also focuses on the dominant issue for heterosexual young adults: how to negotiate the desire and confusion they feel vis - à - vis the opposite sex.»

In these promotional materials, advertisers are not just selling a product, they are also selling gaming as a lifestyle in which women predominantly exist as passive objects of heterosexual male desire.

So these interactive algorithms transmit cultural messages of near constant affirmation of male heterosexual dominance, while simultaneously reinforcing the widespread regressive belief that women's primary role is to satisfy the desires of men (either literally or voyeuristically).

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.

Sherman stood for a postmodern wave of appropriation and artifice, including a focus on heterosexual desire.

The exhibition focuses on the perspective of abused African women and explores the topics of incest and taboo that surrounds it, while simultaneously trying to answer the question how is desire established as a heterosexual male prerogative?

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.

Sex researchers Sarah Murray and Robin Milhausen, both of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, asked 170 undergraduate women and men who had been in heterosexual relationships for anywhere from one month to nine years to report on their levels of relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction and sexual desire.

Some heterosexual women report kissing other women as part of the college social scene or for men's attention, while others do so to experiment or explore potential same - sex desires.1 A 2012 study found that both women and men perceive women who kiss other women in heterosexual spaces (for example, bars that heterosexual individuals frequent) as more promiscuous than those who kiss a man, and that women and men perceive such women as more likely to be heterosexual than bisexual or lesbian.2 In some ways, this last finding may suggest that women and men do not always perceive female - female kissing as necessarily an expression of women's same - sex desire.

Although these differences are typically thought of as gender specific with women experiencing more responsive desire and men experiencing more spontaneous desire, I have worked with same sex couples where one partner experiences responsive desire while the other experiences more spontaneous desire and heterosexual couples where the typical experiences are reversed.

The truth is that in 40 % of healthy heterosexual relationships, the woman is the higher desire partner.

The general decline in sexism over the course of adolescence masks a contrasting effect of romantic experience, which suggests that heterosexual adolescents» desire to attract romantic partners may foster, rather than reduce, sexism.