antisexual

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ sexual

Adjective

antisexual (comparative more antisexual, superlative most antisexual)

1. Opposing sexual intercourse.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 181:

     But as the Church through the centuries grew in power and scope - with its monks and their mutilations and asceticisms, and its celibate clergy, and its absolute refusal to recognize the sexual meaning of its own acclaimed symbols (like the Cross, the three fingers of Benediction, the Fleur de Lys and so forth) - it more and more consistently defined itself as anti-sexual in its outlook, and stood out in that way in marked contrast to the earlier Nature-religions.

   • 2001, Russell Kick, You are being lied to:

     As more and more heterosexual Americans become aware of homosexuals as human beings instead of archetypes of evil, antisexual society once again needs to find a new class of perverts loathsome enough to serve as the vehicles for the general suppression of sexual deviance.

Derived terms

• antisexuality

Translations

antisex — see antisex

Noun

antisexual (plural antisexuals)

1. One who is opposed to sex or to (teaching, researching, expressing, etc) sexuality.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:antisexual.

See also

• celibacy