A sissy might entirely identify as a heterosexual and only desire to be dominated by a woman, while other sissies might be bisexual or homosexual and desire to dominated by a man.

Sexuality is one of the most crucial aspects of the novel inasmuch as both heterosexual and homesexual desire is exercised on different levels and sometimes towards the same people.

The novel is narrated by a male nurse and caretaker, and explores trauma, madness and redemption, the legacies of sexual abuse, and the boundaries between heterosexual and homosexual desire.

Military service offers men unique resources for the construction of a masculine identity defined by emotional control, overt heterosexual desire, physical fitness, self-discipline, self-reliance, the willingness to use aggression and physical violence, and risk taking.

Hope Chayse (Julie Bowen) - A CTU graduate student in Genetic Engineering who invented Adam, initially hoping to satisfy her heterosexual desire.

We are offered instead in the first half of "Tales From Ovid" stories that focus with great intensity on heterosexual desire, violence and transgression.

Mapplethorpe worked diligently to erase the distinctions we commonly draw between heterosexual and homosexual desire, between female and male appearances, between what is accepted as beautiful and what is not.

This text emphasizes pleasure being the aim of intercourse and even goes in depth about homosexual desires which are believed to be the same as heterosexual desires.

Habib said that Raouf "subverts popular understanding of homosexuality by being unable to be brought back into the norm of heterosexual desires."