Talk:Heterosexuality/Archive 1
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This is based on some unmentioned assumptions and also unnecessary to the article in general. --Robbe
- I disagree on both counts but not strongly enough to fight about it. However, I am including the complete text here for context:
- "Heterosexuality is romantic or sexual desire for, or sexual activities with, persons of the opposite sex. It is overwhelmingly the most common sexual preference or orientation.
- This is not surprising when we consider that heterosexual behavior (coitus) is responsible for the reproduction of human beings - persons disinclined to sexual behavior with members of the opposite sex have been at a considerable reproductive disadvantage."
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- [...] - persons disinclined to sexual behavior with members of the opposite sex have been at a considerable reproductive disadvantage.
Surely there's *someone* more recent than Kinsey to refer to? --MichaelTinkler
- Yes, surely, but I don't know them so I wrote about what I know. Kinsey should still be referenced as the researcher who first explored the subject, though. Probably any extended discussion of sexual orientation belongs there. --Dmerrill
"These studies have been discredited, because they relied on prison inmates, hardly a representative sample of the general population."
Ok. Let's see the ref. :-)
OK, trying to avoid an editing war here, but why do you insist on changing the citation style when it is taken directly from wikipedia: cite your sources? Also, heterosexualism, despite the link (which opens to the page homosexuality) is not a word. Try looking it up. Exploding Boy 11:17, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)
- I seen it (ie., wiki:CYS; that's a guide ... not rules in granite) ... the hyperlink is still there ... but it's inline ... instead of "text : hyperlink" ... it's "hyperlinked text" ... the link is still there (and does the same thing without the clutter) ... as to the heterosexualism, it is linked by "List of Isms". Some editor(s) thought to list it and redirect it here (not homosexuality) ... so, it probably is used by ppl (I didn't know about ... and it's not probably not in the OED (oxford english dictionary))... JDR
ETA: I have found the word heterosexualism in one place. It's so rare I think it needs a note to that effect.
- I rv'ed the qualifiaction ... it's not needed. JDR