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heterosexual:
ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek , heteros meaning other / different from, + sexual.

1. A person who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to people of the opposite-sex .
SYNONYMS: het ; hetero; breeder (derogatory); commoner (derogatory).

2. Pertaining to individuals attracted to the opposite-sex .
Synonym: heterocentric; straight .
SEE ALSO: asexual ; bisexual ; bisensual ; monosexual; homosexual ; hypothalamus ; pansexual ; transgendered ; pangendered .

Quote: Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ' Some men are heterosexual, and some men are homosexual , and some men don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers .'




See Also: alloiophilic, anekay, butch number, CHUDWAH, CHUSWAH, civilian, coitante, coitus orthodoxus, daffodil, faggots lunch box, fag stag, fifth wheel, hesexual, Irish way, homo-lover, missionary work, Norman Normal, one-way, right-handed, RM, rough-trade, pretender to the throne, sister act, str, timesqueer, tourist, transitional bisexuality, western lay, that way inclined, sixty-nining, skin-chasing, regular trick, sexually confused, ambibiosis, low Greek, jaihouse turnout, heterophobia, dazzle the audience, clone, absolute code, bear play, allorgasmia, fag bag, faggot's moll, heterosexism, heterosexual bias, hetero-, het, square, breeder, boot slave, bowls from both ends, boy herder, break somebody in, bi-curious, biastophile, bitches' blinds, alternative lifestyle, advertising pilgrim, all man, asshole buddies, backs to the wall chaps!, backs against the wall!, bring out (of the closet), dioning, don't drop the soap!, coitant, coitus à la vache, commoner, cornholing, cross-dressing, dainties, straight sex, straight trick, queen bee, secko, sexoschizia, sexual identity, pansy, pilgrim, fruit-fly, gay rights, fence jumper, Kinsey One, Kinsey Six, left-handed, homosocial, whack job, transvestic fetishism, tumble a fruit, wack job, titty, token-fag queers, swing both ways, that way,

Quotes Containing heterosexual:
Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack) in In &Out (1997):''I need a heterosexual male, code RED!''
Woody Allen: ''I''m a practicing heterosexual but bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Rodney Fraser (Nigel Hawthorne) and Nina Borowski (Jennifer Aniston) in The Object of My Affection (1998) - Rodney Fraser: ''Have you noticed that you''re the only practicing heterosexual at your Thanksgiving dinner?'' - Nina Borowski: ''I haven''t practiced for a while.''
Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell), a lesbian in She''s Gotta Have It (1986): ''You''re not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .''
Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975): ''Some men are heterosexual , and some men are homosexual , and some men don''t think about sex at all. They become lawyers.''
Lesbian Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell) in She''s Gotta Have It (1986): ''You''re not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .''


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