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Citations:antisexual

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English citations of antisexual

Noun

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one who is "sex-negative" or opposed to sexuality, teaching sex, etc

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  • 1967, Allen Edwardes, Erotica Judaica: a sexual history of the Jews:
    Havelock Ellis opined that antisexuals controversialize sex because they unconsciously fear there won't be enough of it, and Montaigne berated those who cannot be sufficiently rid of vice themselves if they feel compelled to contend with it in ...
  • 1984, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde, On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg:
    And Peter's very explicit "Sex Experiment" poems will be hard to swallow for the antisexuals: He takes his cock out of my ass, gently — []
  • 2004, James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life, W. W. Norton & Company (→ISBN), page 747:
    “If antisexuals can use organization to interfere to remove the financial means of sexual science,” announced Yohn[,] “prosexuals can certainly organize to protect sexual science.”
  • 2006, Marty Klein, America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty, Greenwood Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 88:
    Antisexuals assume that everyone winds up at adult bookstores via repression and degradation (which is how an antisex person would get there), not via celebration or choice or even mild loneliness. There simply aren't enough perverts to ...
  • 2012, Ted Huntington, Direct to Brain Windows, Remote Neuron Reading and Writing and Other Science Big Secrets, Lies, and Mistakes, Ted Huntington (→ISBN), page 307:
    One focus of the antisexuals of this time is on child pornography. Making child pornography illegal only protects those who abuse children.

one who is specifically opposed to having sex (themself)

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  • 2005, New Statesman:
    These "antisexuals" are banding together on the internet to insist on their right not to have sex. For those who do want to have sex but are struggling, there are tottering piles of self-help books on the subject.

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  • 1954, Kirkland W. Green, Fools of the Earth: A Study of the Influence of Negative Thinking in Our Time:
    Perverts are a class of the fools of earth who have chosen substitutes for normal sex expression, such as homosexuals, antisexuals, and defeatists. Homosexuals are found among both men and women and on both the normal and ...
  • 2000, Schizophrenia Bulletin, page 745:
    At first I was going to be a Buddhist saint, then I was a pawn in a secret war between the sexuals and the antisexuals that would determine the fate of humanity, then I realized I was in contact with aliens from the future.

one of the opposite sex(?)

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  • 1973, Earl Wendel Count, Being and Becoming Human: Essays on the Biogram, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company:
    ... both sexes developing an intolerance of their iso-sexuals and an interest in their antisexuals — an identification which previously had been nonexistent or, rather, nonmanifest. Yet paradoxically, these antagonisms do not disrupt the society.