La Heteronormatividad: el canon dominante sobre el comportamiento sexual

Abstract

Is heterosexuality the only natural? In the animal kingdom, Zoology has described different forms of sexual relations in addition to heterosexual; bisexuality, homosexuality, and transsexuality are more common among species than most are willing to accept publicly.

Primatology in particular provides insight into sexual relationships between our closest relatives, monkeys and apes, which helps to understand the manifestations of human sexuality. Those who ignore these realities do so conditioned by an ideological power: heteronormativity.

This academic paper is based on bibliographic research, whose purpose is to present two assertions: 1) A sociobiological one: animal sexuality (including human) is diverse and is not exclusively subject to biological procreation; 2) Another sociological: heteronormativity is an ideology that is an intrinsic part of patriarchy as a hegemonic social order.

Heteronormativity is imposed as a cultural norm: domestic, labor, educational, religious, legal, ethical and political; it accuses sexual expressions other than heterosexuality of pathologies, makes their real dimensions invisible and constructs an artificial daily life with the rank of “natural”.