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  2. Heterosexuality - Wikipedia

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    A straight couple. Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender.As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the opposite sex.

  3. Biology and sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    LeVay found no evidence for a difference between the groups in the size of INAH1, INAH2 or INAH4. However, the INAH3 group appeared to be twice as big in the heterosexual male group as in the gay male group; the difference was highly significant, and remained significant when only the six AIDS patients were included in the heterosexual group.

  4. Heteronormativity - Wikipedia

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    This ideology imposes societal expectations that encourage individuals to conform to traditional roles within a nuclear family structure: seeking an opposite-sex partner, entering into heterosexual marriage, and raising children. Heteronormative temporality promotes abstinence-only until marriage. Many American parents adhere to this ...

  5. Children of same-sex couples fare as well as those of ... - AOL

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    The children of sexual minority families fare as well as, or better than, “traditional” families with parents of the opposite sex, according to a new review of studies.. The analysis ...

  6. Sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Pattern of romantic or sexual attraction "Sexual preference" redirects here. For the book, see Sexual Preference (book). Sexual orientation Sexual orientations Asexual Bisexual Heterosexual Homosexual Related terms Allosexuality Androphilia and gynephilia Bi-curious Gray asexuality ...

  7. Demographics of sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Survey conducted in 2013 by the University of the Philippines found that 96.2% of youth describe themselves as straight/heterosexual. 2.1% described themselves as gay or lesbian while 1.7% are bisexual. 2.4% of men described themselves as gay, while 1.8% of women described themselves as lesbian. [77]

  8. Heterosexism - Wikipedia

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    Also, hospitals may limit patient visiting only to immediate family, i.e., relatives, and exclude same-sex partners. [27] Heterosexism affects the family in several ways. For example, in many countries around the world, same-sex marriage is not allowed, so non-heterosexual persons must remain unmarried or enter into heterosexual marriage. [28]

  9. Mixed-orientation marriage - Wikipedia

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    In the film Imagine Me & You a straight woman falls in love with a lesbian at her wedding. In the film Mulligans a gay man spends the summer with his best friend's family and begins an affair with the father. In the film The Wedding Banquet a gay Taiwanese immigrant man marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green ...