heterosexual
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There was a 4% rise in the number of heterosexual people aged 50 and above in the same period.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Classic romantic comedies might have convinced many viewers that these kinds of problems are relegated specifically to heterosexual culture.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Dad Brain,” as the author acknowledges, skews toward married, educated, heterosexual couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Incels” is a term that generally refers to extremely online heterosexual men whose “involuntary celibacy” has shaped their attitudes toward women and other worldviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
The women of Raskova’s regiments, with Soviet society reinforcing their heterosexual standards, felt that marriage was acceptable; but affairs were not.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
"I'm a married gay man and we adopted our son so we didn't have the normal route that most heterosexuals couples will have had into parenting," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
In 2021, Australian biologist Brendan Zietsch and colleagues presented evidence that heterosexuals carrying same-sex-associated alleles have more sexual partners than those not carrying the variants.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
While 69% of heterosexuals described their physical health as “good” or “excellent,” only half of their non-straight peers said the same.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
“Every night he introduced me with shining words to these walls of heterosexuals all over the world,” Anohni intoned, as a drummer in the park bashed away in the distance.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
I want heterosexuals to love the book too, but I’m not changing the depiction of this world to meet their sensibilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
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