Sentences with phrase «of heterosexual relationships»

In her ongoing series «Experimental Relationship,» first started in 2007, Liao conceives fictional situations that challenged «the norm of heterosexual relationships.»

He convincingly illustrates the distance between African - American women and men on key issues — such as attitudes toward sexuality and commitment to traditional moral codes — that directly impact the health and longevity of heterosexual relationships.

Not exact matches

So, whatever the reason, there are gay people that will always be gay and the vast majority of whom are not going to be chaste and are not going to be able to successfully or happily sustain a heterosexual relationship.

However, I do know that in America there is a kind of religious or cultural feeling against anal sex even in heterosexual relationships.

The «solidity and space» of gay relationships «are qualities sometimes lacking in more rote, heterosexual couplings.»

In addition, with the overwhelming majority of people continuing to enjoy heterosexual marriage, I am not persuaded that the biblical theme of gender complementarity, which is modeled between Christ and the Church, is under threat, nor that this theme is authoritative for all relationships.

And gays and lesbians have greater difficulty in maintaining long - term monogamous relationships (but that may be a function in part of books like Cagnon's that condemn them for promiscuity yet keep them from marrying; besides, far and away, most failed monogamous relationships are heterosexual).

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.

Bishop Mark will also express concern that the Government may «further undermine» marriage as it considers proposals to reform marriage registration for the first time since 1837, including a right of heterosexuals to register relationships as civil partnerships instead of marriages.

A properly ordered heterosexual relationship is a liturgical event because it is a mirror image - a sacrament - of the covenant between God and mankind, between Christ and the Church.

Having established that homosexual relationships are the same as heterosexual relationships the next step of promoting homosexual relationships as equal in providing a suitable environment to raise children logically and actually followed.

Research demonstrates that the psychological and social aspects of committed relationships between same - sex partners closely resemble those of heterosexual partnerships.

Research examining the quality of intimate relationships also shows that gay and lesbian couples have levels of relationship satisfaction similar to or higher than those of heterosexual couples.

@YeahRight: Research demonstrates that the psychological and social aspects of committed relationships between same - sex partners closely resemble those of heterosexual partnerships.

@YeahRight: Hundreds of thousands of experts have shown that like their heterosexual counterparts, many gay and lesbian people want to form stable, long - lasting, committed relationships.

Hundreds of thousands of experts have shown that like their heterosexual counterparts, many gay and lesbian people want to form stable, long - lasting, committed relationships.

He added that the Church would not judge people in gay relationships, but said: «To bless this type of union, to say that they are like [heterosexual] marriages, never.

Beyond the obvious reality that to seek to reduce a relationship to it's purely sexual element whether hetero or homo is insulting... This comment is particularly silly since the same description of dominant verses submissive, giving verses receiving, applies equally well to heterosexual sex.

That's because same - sex behavior in the first century was not understood to be the expression of an exclusive sexual orientation but rather it was understood as excess on the part of those who could easily be content with heterosexual relationships, but who went beyond them in search of more exotic pleasures.

«Couldn't even as a heterosexual I have this type of relationship with more than one woman?»

In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.

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.

The ruling was the result of cultural trends that emerged in the context of heterosexual, not homosexual, relationships.

For example, a study of seventy - nine alcoholics by Jacob Levine showed that a decided majority had either diminished or nonexistent interest in heterosexual relationships.

Gay relationships are found throughout all of nature and the experts have shown that heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality.

Nonetheless, nobody can doubt that most people have found, and still find, heterosexual genital contact, enjoyed within some societal context, satisfactory for them and their preferred way of intimate relationship with others of the human race.

Some of these students would say they most identify with what groups like the Gay Christian Network term «Side A» (they believe homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relations in the sight of God).

I also know that due to the statistics, homosexual relationships (and in fact, heterosexual relationships outside of sacramental marriage) are rarely committed.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

«We don't feel there is either a necessity or a requirement to open up civil partnerships to heterosexuals because there is no deficit there — there is no lack of an ability to be able to formalise a relationship in a legal way,» she said then.

Andrew Cuomo, himself, lives in an openly heterosexual sexual relationship with his paramour, Sandra Lee, in the presence of his daughters apparently not caring what effect that living arrangement also has on his minor daughters.

«The current proposals endeavour to equate homosexual partnerships which are in principle non-child bearing with heterosexual partnerships which are in principle procreative and establish a set of rules for state supported sexual relationships that are blind to sexual orientation,» he said in a blog post.

As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well as the majority of heterosexuals — can not and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

Morris contends that Africans in ordinary heterosexual relationships are linked, not only to each other but also to the partners of their partners» partners — and to the partners of those partners — via a web of sexual relationships extending across huge regions.

A simple example of platonic relationships is a deep, non-sexual friendship between two heterosexual people of the opposite sexes.

A Chapman University psychologist and his interdisciplinary research team have just published a study examining the sexual satisfaction — or dissatisfaction — of heterosexual couples in long - term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive.

About one fourth of heterosexual couples in committed relationships in the study shared at least one strain of HPV, the researchers found.

The study also looked at the likelihood of gender homophily — the notion that people affiliate with others who are similar to themselves and, in particular, of the same gender — a well - established phenomenon in heterosexual relationships because cross-gender friendships can add the complicating factor of possible romantic or sexual tension, or the jealousy of one's partner.

The researchers showed pictures of their female partners to a total of 40 heterosexual men who were in a permanent relationship — and pictures of other women for comparison.

In a new study titled «Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long - and short - term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables», the research team captured the relationship preferences of 151 heterosexual male and female volunteers (75 men and 76 women) by asking them to look at pictures of 50 potential partners, and to indicate whether they would prefer a long or short - term relationship with each.

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.

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.

In fact, a 2016 study of heterosexual couples published in Archives of Sexual Behavior found that while there's an upswing in sexual satisfaction during the first 12 months of a relationship, it's followed by a steady decline after the one - year anniversary.

Ansari qualifies that most of his research involved speaking with college - educated, middle class heterosexuals who have «quite intense relationships with their expensive smartphones.»

A Chapman University psychologist and his research team recently published a study examining the sexual satisfaction — and dissatisfaction — of heterosexual couples in long - term relationships, and what contributes to keeping sexual passion alive.

In heterosexual relationships, the foremost study into the differences in how each gender deals with heartbreak comes from researchers at Binghamton University, who pried open the personal lives of 6,000 participants across 96 countries by asking them to rate the emotional pain of their last break up.

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.

Whether he has children from a prior heterosexual relationship, has gone through foster care or private adoption or has fathered a child with a female friend or surrogate, a growing segment of the gay dating market is gay dads.

This is the first time that I know of were eHarmony has said they are going to spend some research money to see if gay relationships actually do differ from heterosexual relationships.

The site serves heterosexual and homosexual singles alike, and is for people looking for all different kinds of relationships.