sexualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkʃuəlɪzm/
Forms: form: sexualisms
Etymology: From sexual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
ref: 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:
text: As regards other indications of sexualism, there is no doubt a certain representation of divine things in a sexual way.
ref: 2012, L. S. S. O'Malley, Popular Hinduism: The Religion of the Masses, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Sexualism and slaughter go hand in hand.
ref: 2015, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: The quality of being sexual; a sex-oriented approach or focus.
examples: text: When Valette, following Bonnier's philosophy, proposed to women that they adopt sexualism as their "true religion," she recast an old idea.
ref: 1978, Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean Helen Quataert, Socialist Women, →ISBN:
text: As man's role was to produce, and socialism was the ideology by which his production would be restored to harmony ; so woman's role was to reproduce, and 'sexualism' was the ideology by which her reproduction would be restored to harmony.
ref: 1982, Charles Sowerwine, Femmes Et Le Socialisme, →ISBN, page 62:
text: For the communist anarchists in league with the Freewoman, however, socialism slid easily into sexualism.
ref: 1996, Bruce Clarke, Dora Marsden and Early Modernism, →ISBN:
text: Just as Valette herself had embodied socialist and feminist commitments to the advancement of women while remaining traditionally "feminine" in style, so "sexualism" promised societal radical change but deferred it to a socialist future.
ref: 2011, Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World, →ISBN:
glosses: A social theory first introduced by Aline Valette (1850—1899) that promoted socialism with preferential treatment of women because of their role in reproducing the species.
examples: text: We find analogous phenomena in this Medical sexualism. Our readers cannot but have been struck with the sentiments of " One Cognisant of the Facts ” in defence of a daughter being taught to pass the catheter for her own father. ...Grant the principle that all the natural instincts of humanity in its higher social development may be set aside, provided the object be good in the eyes of the sexualist, and any immorality may be— indeed is —clothed with a mantle of purity.
ref: 1870, The Medical Times and Gazette:
text: A suggestion I have for the University is to highlight more the close link between sexism and sexualism (my personal word for discrimination based on sexuality).
ref: 1991, From Invisibility to Inclusion: Opening the Doors for Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan:
text: Oh my. Sexism ("bitch"), sexualism ("gay") and racism ("gooks") all in just two lines.
ref: 2001 June 20, Douglas Reay, “BLIZZARD FUCK YOU”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet):
text: “Ours is a sexualist society,” Evan began. “In particular, we have come to believe in constraints on the love which can exist between women and women, and men and men. Unlike other cultures and other times, we have made the gender of our beloved, and not the quality of the love, the overriding issue. This sexualism is pervasive and insidious.”
ref: 2015 -, Marc Solomon, Winning Marriage, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief that one set of sexual behaviors is intrinsically superior to another set of sexual behaviors, or prejudice and discrimination based on that belief.
Synonyms: word: sexualism
Hypernyms: word: prejudice
Hyponyms: word: acephobia
word: aphobia
word: biphobia
word: gayphobia
word: heterophobia
word: heteroprejudice
word: heterosexism
word: homophobia
word: homoprejudice
word: lesbophobia
word: queerphobia
Related terms: word: sexism
word: person with sexual attraction