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Is Heterosexuality a Choice?

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The professor teaching the first hetero-studies course isn’t sure.

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. There are certain towns I call ‘bro towns,” the sociologist Jane Ward told me. We were sitting in the kitchen of her sunny home in Santa Barbara, California; the yard outside was ringed with citrus trees. Ward, a young-looking 51, in a plaid romper and Birkenstocks, had her sandy-blonde hair and a few natural grays tucked behind her ears. Maui is a bro town, she explained, with its surfer culture and wh

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