English Dictionary

heterosexualism

noun

Discrimination against non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation. / The state or existence of heterosexuality, including the traditional gender roles that accompany it.

Heterosexualism is the belief that heterosexuality is the only valid sexual orientation.

意味（1）

Discrimination against non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.

What I fear is the normalization of homosexual behavior, which otherwise stands as a challenge to heterosexualism—the belief that all sexual behavior should be procreative or at least not preclude the possibility of babymaking.

意味（2）

The state or existence of heterosexuality, including the traditional gender roles that accompany it.

The moral fabric of American family life centered on the suburban split level family of the suburbs, upholding the values and beliefs of heterosexualism, as pictured in the novels of Edmund White and other recent gay writers.

意味（3）

Synonym of heterosexuality

I have talked this observation over with Rank, Freud, Ferenczi and other psychoanalysts, and it seems to be generally agreed that secret, isolated autoerotism does not convert easily to heterosexualism and is far more difficult to cure by psychoanalysis than homosexual masturbation that has not continued too long.