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- adjective In a
heterosexual way.
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Examples
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Some researchers who uncovered sexual preference differences between homosexually and heterosexually parented children, nonetheless declared in their research summaries that no differences were found.
Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida 2010
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Because dance contestants are heterosexually paired with a professional dancer, some critics are concerned with which "DWTS" dancer Chaz is coupled with: "Chaz will have to dance with one of the girls because she/he says she/he is a man but chromesomes say different no matter how many surgeries you have."
Irene Monroe: Chaz Comes Out Dancing Irene Monroe 2011
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"Factors that may account for this drop include our findings that more were waiting until later in adolescence to become heterosexually involved, more were using emergency contraception if they were heterosexually active, and perhaps even that more were engaging in same-sex behavior," Dr. Nanette Gartrell, NSFG lead author, is quoted as saying by the Windy City Times.
Teen Girls Having More Same-Sex Contact, Fewer Pregnancies: U.S. National Survey Of Family Growth 2011
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Today, they both don the drag of being heterosexually married.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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Furthermore, those same girls also claim to have been significantly less heterosexually active, at just 46 percent in 2006-2008, whereas the 2002 survey found 63 percent of girls in the same age group had been active.
Teen Girls Having More Same-Sex Contact, Fewer Pregnancies: U.S. National Survey Of Family Growth 2011
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These are, in effect, narcissists who become overwhelmingly attracted, quasi-heterosexually, to the idea of themselves as a beautiful woman.
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Young people of all sexual identities are often pressured to become heterosexually active to prove to themselves and other that they are "normal."
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Heterosexism and GOP Presidential Candidates Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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Young people of all sexual identities are often pressured to become heterosexually active to prove to themselves and other that they are "normal."
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Heterosexism and GOP Presidential Candidates Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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Young people of all sexual identities are often pressured to become heterosexually active to prove to themselves and other that they are "normal."
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Heterosexism and GOP Presidential Candidates Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011
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Today, they both don the drag of being heterosexually married.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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