Sentences with phrase «of heterosexual love»

The predictors of marital success have changed profoundly in the past 50 years, argues historian Stephanie Coontz, because our ideals of heterosexual love have changed.

Not exact matches

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.

Mr. Rich was gratified, indeed exultant, over the box office success of The Birdcage, noting that the same weekend it opened a Robert Redford movie about a heterosexual love affair did not do nearly so well.

Thatcher argues that gay and lesbian sexual unions express the sacrament of God's divine love just as heterosexual unions do.

And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex relationship as well as it can be modeled in a committed heterosexual relationship.

having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he loves homosexuals as much as heterosexuals.

Otherwise both men and women equally love sex, and lots of heterosexual women love a picture of a nice male ass.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

To portray same - sex and heterosexual commitment as mutually exclusively seems more a tactic of fear than one of love and grace.

There is too little room in the heterosexual box for either spouse in a marriage to develop fully her or his capacities for loving humanity and God out of a sense of self as both strong and gentle, confident and vulnerable, assertive and receptive, equally able to lead and to follow.

One thing I love about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.

Instead of pointing homophobic fingers, heterosexual men should learn a thing or two about love (including being good lovers), faithfulness, loyalty and charm!

I don't believe that God creates us in such a way that one group (heterosexuals) living out a life of committed, covenanted love is participating in sanctification while another group (homosexuals) living out the exact same kind of love is condemned to damnation.

Peter Tatchell, coordinator of the Equal Love campaign, said heterosexual couples faced «legal inequality and discrimination» because under the terms of the legislation published today they will not have the option of getting civil partnerships instead.

Previous imaging studies, she notes, show no difference in brain activation when homosexual and heterosexual participants viewed pictures of their loved ones.

In a series of interviews, heterosexual women between the ages of 20 and 68 and from a range of backgrounds said that they believed love was necessary for maximum satisfaction in both sexual relationships and marriage.

Fisher's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record the brain activity of 15 university - aged heterosexual men and women who had recently been jilted by long - term partners, and who described themselves as still being «absolutely and very intensely in love.»

Our findings mirror those of a study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior which examined upset over sexual versus emotional jealousy among 63,894 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual participants.2 They were asked if they would be more hurt by their partners having sex with someone else (but not falling in love with them) or their partners falling in love with someone else (but not having sex with them).

SF CHRONICLE — Feb 14 — After eHarmony said its psychological research is based exclusively on heterosexual relationships, a growing number of rival online matchmakers are using their algorithms to find same - sex love as well.

See, gay couples, lesbian couples and such may not seem to have fallen in love for the purposes of procreation but they are the outliers, as the standard heterosexual relationship is triggered by chemical reactions in the brain.

However, sometime during the Renaissance platonic love adopted the meaning we attach to it today, that of a close, heterosexual bond devoid of sensuality.

We can accomplish this by making our love for our partners more visible by showing public displays of affection and being unapologetically ourselves like our heterosexual counterparts have always been able to do and take for granted.

Far from taking advantage of others (although, as with all dating sites, that does inevitably happen) sugar babies can be honest about exactly what they want, as society starts to come round to the idea that traditional heterosexual monogamy is not the only way to do love.

Angela Robinson, who wrote and directed the film, has managed to take what could have been a tawdry or salacious look into Wonder Woman's naughty roots and give her real - life characters — and their genuine love for each other — the same amount of respect that any vanilla, monogamous heterosexual historical figure would receive.

First is the highly sexual nature of the maturity both films chronicle, with prepubescent Lila (Gina Piersanti) in It Felt Like Love trying to basically force her way into her sexuality, while Frankie (Harris Dickinson) in Beach Rats struggles with his sexual identity, cruising for older men online while trying to maintain a heterosexual relationship with Simone (Madeline Weinstein).

Garret Dillahunt in the role of Paul gives a toned - down performance of a heterosexual man that discovered love all over again, this time with another man.

Instead, it is the most sumptuous, classical star cross'd lovers romance — a «Juliet and Juliet» story — in which the central love affair is presented just as legitimately as those that dotted the Hollywood films of the Golden Era (films whose narratives French film theorist Raymond Bellour memorably likened to machines designed to produce heterosexual couples).

I tend to think that hate and prejudice are much worse than two people simply sharing love together, and so I wondered how it might be for two heterosexuals in a future where they are part of the stigma - stuck minority.

While Love was outlined as a bond based on the adoration of people, animals and all of nature, whtehr heterosexual, homosexual, transsexual or non-sexual, Lust delved into the primal, sometimes shocking, borderline - pornographic nature of contemporary sex culture.

Research by Chris Agnew, SofR's own Tim Loving, and Steve Drigotas3 gathered a sample of heterosexual dating couples and had them identify «his friends,» «her friends,» and «our friends» (i.e., friends of both partners) and then asked them all to rate the commitment and closeness of the couple.

What Science Says: If the card company assumed heterosexual partners, research supports the message that men are less likely to incorporate feelings into their concepts of love and describe love much more simply than women.4 Importantly, receiving an apology does not necessarily increase relationship satisfaction (more on apologies here).5 Rather, the key factor in promoting greater relationship satisfaction is whether the person making the apology takes responsibility.

If this has any effect at all upon heterosexual married couples, it is to support the concept of a lifelong commitment between two loving adults and promotion of the family unit that marriage represents.

We believe that attachment theory and the science of love applies to GLBT people and relationships as well as heterosexual persons and relationships.

[I must point out that it should be a «seemingly obvious proposition» that children do best in one stable, permanent, stress - free and financially secure child - centered home, with one (or two) authoritative, loving parents (married or not), preferably well - educated and well - adjusted, whose focus is on selflessly and cooperatively contributing to and optimizing the child's environment and opportunies — and that it is irrelevant, except to the extent on a case - by - case basis that this indirectly impacts those real factors that affect child wellbeing, whether the parental captain at the helm of this ship consists of one or two parents, biological parents, or even heterosexual parents.