…heterosexuality is like air; all around us and yet invisible. But as we all know, the fact that we can see through air doesn’t mean it can’t exert force, push things around, and create friction. […] Think about heterosexuality like an aircraft pilot thinks about the air: as something that is not only capable of but is constantly in the process of influencing if not dictating thoughts, actions, and reactions.

Hanne Blank; Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, pg. xvi

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