heterosex

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English

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Etymology

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From hetero- +‎ sex. Attested since the 20th century.

Noun

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heterosex (usually uncountable, plural heterosexes)

  1. (sexuality) Heterosexual sex.
    • 1980 April 12, David Roggensack, “The Thing of Shapes to Come”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
      These [gay] characters will not accept the past solutions of heterosexual society. They will not commit suicide, nor will they seek salvation in heterosex.

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Verb

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heterosex (third-person singular simple present heterosexes, present participle heterosexing, simple past and past participle heterosexed)

  1. (sociology, transitive) To make heterosexual.
    • 2013, Paul Cloke, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin, Introducing Human Geographies, page 651:
      For example, the heterosexing of public space means that while heterosexual couples can hold hands or kiss goodbye in the street, the same behaviour from same-sex couples is likely to attract attention and sometimes verbal or physical sanctions against them.
    • 2014, MariaCaterina La Barbera, Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives:
      Although each society defines its own norms, most of them assign a higher status to men over women, to heterosexual persons over non-heterosexual ones, and to heterosexed bodies over non-heterosexed ones.