sexualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexualists
Etymology: From sexual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But if this is at all an argument, it is one from which the sexualist has but little to fear; as in the case of slips and layers there is in fact no production of a new individual, but merely a prolongation of the old; or at best a multiplication by means of division, as in the case of the Polypi: and although plants are capable of being multiplied in this manner, it is no proof that they may not be propagated by means of sexual intercourse also.
ref: 1816, Patrick Keith, A System of Physiological Botany - Volume 2, page 341:
text: Both the asexualist Spallanzini and the sexualist Erasmus Darwin cited Koelreuter, and the German botanist Johann Hedwig, the first to describe male and female reproductive structures in nonseed plants (cryptogams), declared in 1798 that Koelreuter had demonstrated “beyond all doubt" that "propagation by sexual union takes place in the plant world also."
ref: 2017, Lincoln Taiz, Lee Taiz, Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants, page 420:
text: It was the sexualists who successfully freed their minds from such cultural biases and glimpsed the true sexual nature of plants. The sexualists went on to demonstrate the presence of both the sexual and asexual generations in the life cycles of all plants, as revealed by Hofmeister's great synthesis, thus enabling the asexualists to share in the ultimate solution to the puzzle.
ref: 2020, Felicia McCarren, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet: La Source 1866-2014, page 70:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.
examples: text: My interest was centered in what I call "the true homosexual:" the man who has male genitals, who is an active male sexualist, and who likes to play with other male genitals.
ref: 2006, James Thomas Sears, Behind the Mask of the Mattachine:
text: Sappho, being a poet and "a sexualist," embodies the word herself; language and sex become one in her: "Say my name and you say sex," she is the outcome of "the union of language and lust."
ref: 2009, Sonia Front, Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction, page 77:
text: […] sexualists whose behaviour dominated by sexuality at the expense of other attributes is so because of the relative mass of brain which genetics has given to their sexual brain?
ref: 2013, Stuart J. Dimond, Neuropsychology, page 469:
text: According to Athenaeus Stesichorus, 'Who was to no small extent a sexualist,' also wrote this kind of poem, which was already named in antiquity 'a "song about boys".'
ref: 2013, Hans Licht, Sexual Life In Ancient Greece:
glosses: One who is very sexual; A person who is very lusty.
examples: text: Reminiscences out of his infantile preiod were utilized in the neruosis, as a result of which he came near being the victim of a homo-sexualist.
ref: 1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141:
text: And anybody taking part in it must be a perverted sexualist?
ref: 1918, Noel Pemberton Billing, Verbatim Report of the Trial of Noel Pemberton Billing, page 268:
text: 'Well, I know', says Dr. Poole decidedly. 'I know I love you. I know I want to be with you. Always. Till death do us part,' he adds with all the fervour of an introverted sexualist suddenly converted to objectivity and monogamy.
ref: 1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence:
text: Thus we have hetero- and homosexuals, rather than daylight versus nighttime sexualists, or standing-up versus lying-down sexualists.
ref: 1998, Erwin J. Haeberle, Rolf Gindorf, Bisexualities, page 183:
text: The pan-sexualist, of course, may claim that this is just a proof that religion and social protest are nothing but ( misdirected ) expressions of sexuality.
ref: 2000, Jens Hoyrup, Human Sciences: Reappraising the Humanities Through History and Philosophy:
text: An early article by Ludwig Frey on the Rupfertum or fleecing of urnings drew a lurid picture of proletarian criminals haunting public toilets at dusk to lure the "contrary-sexualist" to his doom.
ref: 2003, Laurence Senelick, Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925, page 4:
glosses: Someone with a specified type of sexuality.
raw_tags: with a hyphenated prefix
examples: text: A much more thoroughgoing sexualist was Wilhelm Reich who advocated sexual freedom for adolescents, children and married people.
ref: 1972, Richard H. Rush, The Wrecking Operation: Phase One, page 94:
text: As Hal told me, "I'm a sexualist. I've always said , 'We're fighting for sexual freedom. Let's have some . '
ref: 2002, Paul D. Cain, Leading the Parade, page 35:
text: In a published editorial conversation about I Am Curious (Yellow), Jonas Sima ponders whether Sjöman should be considered a "sexualist" or a socialist. He argues that Sjöman's goal may have been primarily to tear down sexual taboos, not to reform, let alone revolutionize, society.
ref: 2016, Elisabet Björklund, Mariah Larsson, Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution, page 58:
glosses: One who promotes sexual freedom.