Citations:sexuality

English citations of sexuality

quality of being sexual, that is, of being a species (etc) which reproduces sexually, not asexually

• 2005, G. H. Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 166:

  The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms. Only a few asexual groups are 'species' rich and ostensibly asexual […]

quality of being sexual, that is, of experiencing sexual attraction and not the orientation asexuality

• 2017, Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, Brian McNair, The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality, Routledge (→ISBN)

  If we understand compulsory sexuality as a system that regulates the norms around sexual desire and practice, then how can we use this concept to better understand asexuality, low or no sexual desire/attraction and other forms of abstention ...

the one bolded instance could be this sense:

• 2014, Karli June Cerankowski, Megan Milks, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Routledge (→ISBN)

  In the phrase titling this section, “asexuality without sexuality,” I am using “without” to mean both “on the outside of” as well as “in the absence of.” What does asexuality mean if it is neither included under the larger umbrella of sexuality, where asexuality is a part of sexuality, not as the polar opposite of sexuality on a scale of extremes? [...] After all of this, how can we say that asexuality is not already squarely within the domain of sexuality?

sexual potency?

1. • 1993, Zhu Ling, “A Brave New World? On the Construction of ‘Masculinity’ and ‘Femininity’ in The Red Sorghum Family”, in Tonglin Lu, editor, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-century Chinese Literature and Society (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 128:

     [A]s if by deflowering her, Yu has established his claim over her sexuality and being, he forces her into accepting him as her husband substitute, from which position he jealously guards her sexuality.

sexual activity; interest in sexual activity(?)

• 2013, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, “Perspectives on Sexuality”, in Our Sexuality, 12th edition, Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 11:

  […] Rigid gender-role conditioning can limit each person's potential and can harm his or her sexuality [...]. A report from researchers who analyzed data about sexual behavior from 59 countries identified gender inequality as a key factor negatively affecting individual sexual health [...] For example, gender-role expectations of "appropriate" behavior for men ad women might contribute to the notion that the man must always initiate sexual activity while the woman must either set limits or comply. [...] It appears that when overall gender equality is greater, individuals of both sexes see male and female sexuality more similarly.

• 2015, Ken Plummer, Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN, page 67:

  And as people move, so do their sexualities: a transforming world of sexualities moves with them. They carry with them the sexual contradictions of one complex culture into the sexual contradictions of another; along, possibly, with the burdens of nomadism, rootlessness and homelessness. […] Migrants cannot and do not simply assimilate their sexual lives to their new cultures: they bring their own experiences, confront conflicts and build new sexual lives [...]. New lives and new varieties of hybrid sexualities emerge in this process of human action. Research has shown quite a lot about this process of transformative sexualities arising from the struggles of [...] Filipino gay men arriving in New York City to become gay divas, […]