Being In A Heterosexual Relationship

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A heterosexual relationship can be patriarchal. This is because the male is usually the leader of the relationship and can restrain the female. Around the 1980s, Frye wrote a book called Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism saying that heterosexual feminists need to know that there is
“pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial produce of the patriarchy” (Frye 53).
Being in a heterosexual relationship comes from what is the norms of society. When Frye says that “women are a highly artificial produce of the patriarchy,” she is saying that females