Shake it, and you have a heterosexual couple.

Shake it, and you have a heterosexual couple.

R. Römkens, Violence against women in heterosexual relationships, 1989.

You're a heterosexual or a homosexual, or you never have sex.

The latter are used more frequently by heterosexual couples than same sex couples.

An increasing number of HIV diagnoses among women, and in the subgroup of women who had had perinatally exposed children, was associated with heterosexual contact in a high prevalence country or heterosexual contact with a partner from a high prevalence country.

Out of 458 AIDS cases who were infected through the heterosexual way, 241 (52.6 ) concern women.

Out of a total of 1,214 people who were infected through the heterosexual way, 756 (62.27 ) are women.

After all, if you are completely healthy and you have heterosexual sex, the risk of infection in one intercourse is one in 1,000.

And anyone who's ever been in a heterosexual relationship knows that the minds of men and the minds of women are not indistinguishable.

Women's subordinate position in sexual relations as well as their biological condition makes heterosexual sex the most common way the disease is transmitted in many parts of the world.

The Ontario Court of Appeal held that this cut off date discriminated against same sex partners based on their sexual orientation and so were treated differently in comparison with heterosexual couples.

Since 2000, the Ministry of the Interior adopted an equivalent policy towards same sex couples and heterosexual non marital cohabitants, awarding same sex foreign partners of Israeli citizens with resident status.

It's not deep poverty. It's the special situation, probably of concurrent sexual partnership among part of the heterosexual population in some countries, or some parts of countries, in south and eastern Africa.

But the limitation to heterosexual couples was rightly condemned as homophobic by the French public in the consultations. So the draft bill has been amended to allow lesbian women to receive donated eggs.

As from 2004 this new rule also shifts the burden of proof in cases involving discrimination on other grounds, such as race, nationality, homosexual heterosexual orientation, religion, belief, age, and disability or chronic illness.

The project encompasses all the grounds on which the Equal Treatment Act prohibits discrimination gender, race, nationality, religion, belief, civil status, heterosexual or homosexual orientation, and political opinion, and also includes duration of service'.

The Attorney General (10.01.05)). The state has recently (June, 2004) informed the Supreme Court that it is willing to provide same sex couples with equal privileges to heterosexual couples regarding taxation over shared registered accommodation.

As mentioned in Article 9, the Ministry of the Interior is currently in the process of examining and completing a more flexible policy to both same sex couples and heterosexual non marital cohabitants to be implemented over a seven year period.

They also aim at the identification of and investigation into the experience of women in Greece (especially women belonging to minority groups, because of age, race, social class, religion, nationality or sexual orientation) as well as individuals with different, non heterosexual sexual orientation.

To be sure, French regulation can be heavy handed for example, IVF is restricted to heterosexual couples who are married or in long term relationships. The official rationale was that eggs and sperm are not commodities, but gifts from a fertile couple to an infertile one.