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heterosexual, a. and n.|hɛtərəʊˈsɛksjuːəl|
[See hetero- and sexual.]
A. adj.
1. a. Characterized by a sexual interest in members of the opposite sex. b. Pertaining to sexual relations between people of opposite sex.
1892C. G. Chaddock tr. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 324 The object of post-hypnotic suggestion is to remove the impulse to masturbation and homosexual feelings and impulses, and to encourage heterosexual feelings with a sense of virility. 1927Scots Observer 1 Oct. 15/3 A certain proportion of people..are as instinctively homosexual as the normal individual is heterosexual. 1935Discovery Oct. 313/2 Homosexuality under the homosexual period of Greek life was not a sin, but it became so under heterosexual Christianity. 1969Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 17/3 Co-educational schools probably tend to hasten heterosexual experimentation.
2. Pertaining to, characteristic of both sexes.
1918Genetics III. 287 Studies..on ablation of the gonads in birds, combined with hetero-sexual transplantation, show that both the testes and ovary in birds produce substances that have a profound regulatory effect on growth. 1963Cytogenetics II. 332 The corresponding ovaries, generally atrophied owing presumably to male testicular hormones, contained no heterosexual cells.
B. n. A heterosexual person (see sense 1 above).
1920J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers (1924) II. 207 To convert a fully developed homosexual into a heterosexual. 1966K. Walker Sexual Behaviour xxv. 222 Homosexuals vary as much in physique and in temperament as do heterosexuals. 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 12 Feb. 27/1 Homosexuals, like heterosexuals, should be treated as individual human beings.
Hence ˌheterosexuˈality, the condition of being heterosexual; heterosexual characteristics.
1900H. Blanchamp tr. Féré's Sexual Instinct viii. 183 Psycho-sexual hermaphroditism, in which there are traces of hetero-sexuality, though homo-sexuality predominates. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 677/2 Many people are made unhappy by their heterosexuality, but I do not believe the psychotherapist exists who would try to cure that. |