Dictionaries:
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: 6-to-9, absolute code, advertising pilgrim, all man, alloiophilic, allorgasmia, alternative lifestyle, ambibiosis, anekay, arts, asshole buddies, backs against the wall!, backs to the wall chaps!, bear play, bent, bi-curious, biastophile, biastophilia, bisexual, bitches' blinds, boot slave, bottom's up, bowls from both ends, boy herder, break somebody in, breeder, bring out (of the closet), bumper-to-bumper, butch number, CHUDWAH, CHUSWAH, civilian, clone, cock-teaser, cockteaser, coital alignment technique, coitant, coitante, coitus à la vache, coitus orthodoxus, commoner, cornholing, cross-dressing, daffodil, dainties, daisy, dazzle the audience, dioning, dog in the bathtub, don't drop the soap!, fag bag, fag stag, faggot's moll, faggots lunch box, fence jumper, fifth wheel, fruit-fly, gay rights, hesexual, het, hetero-, heterocoitus, heterophobia, heterosexism, heterosexology, heterosexual bias, homo-lover, homophobia, homosexual, homosocial, hypothalamus, Irish way, jaihouse turnout, Kinsey One, Kinsey Six, leather, left-handed, low Greek, missionary work, Norman Normal, omnisexual, one of those, one-way, pansexual, pansy, peasants, pilgrim, pretender to the throne, queen bee, raptophilia, regular trick, right-handed, RM, rough-trade, scalp hunter, secko, sexoschizia, sexual identity, sexual intercourse, sexually confused, sister act, sixty-nining, skin-chasing, square, str, straight, straight sex, straight trick, swing both ways, that way, that way inclined, timesqueer, titty, token-fag queers, tour time, tourist, transitional bisexuality, transvestic fetishism, transvestism, transvestitism, tumble a fruit, wack job, wannabe, western lay, whack job
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.''
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.''
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.''
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 .''
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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