heterosociality

English

heterosociality (uncountable)

(sociology, psychology) Social interaction between men and women. [from 20th c.]
- 2002, Barrie Gunter, Media Sex: What are the Issues?, →ISBN, page 67:
  Gagnon (1990; Gagnon & Simon, 1973) proposed important and relevant differences in sexual scripts stemming from women's socialisation into heterosociality before heterosexuality, in contrast to men's socialisation into masturbation and heterosexuality before heterosociality.
- 2013, Chris Mounsey, Developments in the Histories of Sexualities, →ISBN, page 245:
  Potkay is noticing much the same thing, I suspect, when he opposes the polite heterosociality of eighteenth-century conversation, […]

sociality with members of the opposite sex

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