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Divorcing Marriage from Sex: Radically Rethinking the Role of Sex in Marriage Law in the United States

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2016
In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court required all states to permit same-sex couples to marry. Many people assume that marriage equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people has been achieved simply by eliminating the requirement that two ...
Sally Goldfarb
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Internet dating as a project: the commodification and rationalisation of online dating [PDF]

open access: yesDružboslovne Razprave, 2015
Based on qualitative empirical data from two studies on Internet dating in Slovenia, this paper discusses the social contexts of the Internet dating of heterosexual men and women and homosexual men.
Tjaša Žakelj   +3 more
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Taking up the cudgels against gay rights? Trends and trajectories in African Christian theologies on homosexuality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Against the background of the HIV epidemic and the intense public controversy on homosexuality in African societies, this article investigates the discourses of academic African Christian theologians on homosexuality. Distinguishing some major strands in
Abogunrin S. O.   +68 more
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A Preservationist Christian Sexual Ethic: Verifying and Vindicating a Contested Perspective

open access: yesReligions
A preservationist Christian sexual ethic affirms heterosexuality as the only normal and natural expression of wholeness in human intimacy, relationships, and lifestyle.
Kenneth L. Waters
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Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual Crisis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
This interpretive essay reads US evangelical purity culture through queer theory demonstrating that the evangelical investment in virginity now produces the evangelical virgin as a politicized subaltern subject position.
Jennifer Miller
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A comparison between homosexuals and heterosexuals based on personality characteristics, parental bonding and levels of mental health

open access: yesمجله علوم روانشناختی, 2018
Background: Sexual demand is one of the first five essential needs of human, which is categorized into homo, hetero and bisexual orientations. Aims: The aim of the present study was to compare sexual orientations based on personality characteristics ...
Mohammad Ali Besharat   +2 more
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Svenska kyrkan ur ett queerperspektiv

open access: yesKulturella Perspektiv, 2000
With queer theory it is possible to analyse the heterosexual norm as a fundamental institution in our society. In this article I present a way of studying the heterosexual norm in the Swedish Church.
Susanne Lindström
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The Paradox of "Natural" Heterosexuality with "Unnatural" Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This essay examines the debates between advocates of heterosexual and pederastic love in Plutarch's Amatorius, Achilles Tatius 2.33-38, and the Lucianic Erotes.
Hubbard, Thomas K.
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Integrity and Universality: A Comment on Dworkin\u27s \u3ci\u3eFreedom\u27s Law\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Ronald Dworkin has done more than any other constitutional lawyer, past or present, to impress upon us the importance of integrity to constitutional law, and hence to our shared public life. Far from being merely a private virtue, Dworkin has shown that
West, Robin
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En röd ballong: Om sexualitet som åldersöverskridande erfarenhet i Kerstin Thorvalls mellanåldersböcker

open access: yesBarnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2017
Title: A Red Balloon: On Sexuality as a Boundary-Crossing Experience in Terms of Age in Kerstin Thorvall's Children's Novels This article discusses how feelings about and experiences of sexuality and pleasure are depicted in children’s books by Swedish ...
Maria Jönsson
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