Citations:monosexual

English citations of monosexual

:noun: person sexually attracted to only one sex/gender

• 2007 March 12, Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks, Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:

  Finally, in an opposition that is far more often put forward by bisexual people themselves than by others, monosexuals - lesbians, gays, and straights - are counterposed to bisexuals. Here, monosexuals are seen as rigid, overly focused on gender as a basis for relationship, while bisexuals are seen as truly flexible […]

• 2013 July 2, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 128:

  As we've seen, bisexual passing might cause all sorts of anxieties regarding the stability and naturalness of monosexual identities. It might denaturalize monosexual identities; since appearing monosexual is no guarantee for monosexuality identity; it might disrupt the presumed uniformity of communities and monosexual spaces, and thus also trigger anxieties of deception and treason “from within”; according to Hemmings, the bisexual person's partiality and her cultural production as inauthentic are the very things that enable her to move through and between various spaces […]

• 2013 November 12, Clare Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender, Routledge, →ISBN, page 28:

  [B]isexual activists and researchers have begun to use the concept of monosexuality to distinguish between bisexuals (who desire more than one sex) and monosexuals (who do not). The term monosexuality is defined in a number of key ways in order to situate bisexuality as both different from and preferable to it. Wilhelm StekePs declaration in 1934, "'There is only bisexuality. . . . There are no monosexual persons!'" clearly suggests a mutually exclusive opposition between the two terms, yet importantly does not consider monosexuals to be real or genuine. […]

:adj.: sexually attracted to only one sex/gender

• 2016 February 2, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin, →ISBN:

  What's up, monosexual gay people?

• 2016 May 10, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 795:

  (... lesbian, gay, and bisexual [LGB] people who are cisgender). Combined with the significant disparities between bisexual and monosexual people, it might be inferred that transgender bisexual people face unique disparities as a distinct […]

• 2022 June 4, Summary of Shiri Eisner's Bi, Everest Media LLC, →ISBN:

  The word privilege is often used to describe the advantages that monosexual people have over bisexual people, but rarely is it used to […]

:adj., attracted to no more than one (potentally zero?)

• 1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge‎^[1], Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:

  Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.

• 1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology)‎^[2], Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

  There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.

• 2013 July 2, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 321:

  Monosexism is the social system according to which everyone is, or should be, monosexual, including social rewards for monosexual people and punishments against bisexual and other nonmonosexual people. Monosexual means someone who is attracted to people of no more than one gender.