Citations:polysexual

English citations of polysexual

pertaining to multiple sexualities

• 2011, Silvia Rief, Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness →ISBN, page 177:

  For example, 'polysexual' suggests a pluralistic, inclusive policy that explicitly highlights that a variety of sexual identifications is welcomed. However, even this does not necessarily sidestep the gay codification […]

sexually polyamorous

• 2008, Mitch L. Gohman, Decision Point: The Family →ISBN, page 144:

  “First of all, swingers are polysexual, and neither Mike or Alex are swingers. They're polyamorous.” “Poly what?!?” “Polyamorous. It means loving more than one, essentially. Polysexual means having sex with more than one.”

• 2013, Elisabeth Sheff, The Polyamorists Next Door →ISBN, page 5:

  Someone who was polyamorous but not polysexual might develop a sexual relationship with one person and polyaffective relationships with others. In this scenario, polysexual persons have sex with many people, but they most likely love only one or no one at all.

• (Can we date this quote?), Leanna Wolfe, The Dynamics of Polysexuality, quoted in 2010 by Terry Gould in The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers →ISBN:

  Butler never made it, but a social anthropologist named Leanna Wolfe spoke to a packed house on “The Dynamics of Polysexuality,” her thesis being that by practicing monogamy we were “defying our ancestral polysexual programming.”

being sexually attracted to more than one (person? gender?)

• 2013, Linda Garnets, Douglas C. Kimmel, Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual ... →ISBN, page 245:

  Other increasingly common identities are gay bisexual among men, and bisensual, polysexual, polyamorous, and polyfidelitous among both women and men.

being sexually attracted to more than one gender or sex

• 1988, Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study →ISBN, page 9:

  She agreed with Freud that all people are biologically polysexual and bisexual, and that uncritical enjoyment of body stimulation exists in childhood. Consequently, she asserted, sexual pleasure in childhood may be derived from either sex.

• 2005, Barnaby B. Barratt, Sexual Health and Erotic Freedom →ISBN, page 89

  We start life with an open potential for erotic enjoyment — we are polysexual — and then, through repeated processes of traumatization, our repertoire of sensual and sexual pleasures becomes much stifled and truncated,