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There are multiple definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality. Unfortunately the article didn't specify which one. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/heter

• Sylos 8y ago
  The article's use of "heterosexual" describes a person. Those two definitions that you listed describe a feeling or behaviour. And while there are people who will call others "gay" as soon as they do anything that could be interpreted as vaguely sexual with someone of the same sex, that's hardly a scientific definition. And no one will identify themselves as this kind of "gay".
  • bufferoverflow 8y ago
    So you're saying there's no connection between "heterosexual" and "heterosexuality"?
    • Sylos 8y ago
      That is not at all what I am saying. I cannot explain this to you better than I already have. Your diverging definition of heterosexuality describes a behaviour or a feeling. It does not apply to people being heterosexual. This is how definitions work. It describes a thing that this word can mean. If what you want it to mean does not fit into the definition, then that's not what it means.