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Straight Talk: We Don’t Know Anything About Heterosexuality

What does it mean to be a straight person? In Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, Blank spends almost two hundred pages to make clear just how unclear our conception of heterosexuality really is. “Despite the fact that most of us use the term ‘heterosexual’ with enormous (and cavalier!) certainty,” she writes, “there seems to be no aspect of ‘heterosexual’ for which a truly iron-clad definition has been established.” The study of sex should belong to the social sciences, not the physical sciences.

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