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heterosexuality

Sexual preference for, or attraction mainly to, persons of the opposite sex.

Heterosexuality has been long regarded in many cultures as the only acceptable expression of sexuality, but this view has been challenged by both feminists and the gay liberation movement as oppressive.



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