Talk:Monosexuality

message: Note: This article needs to be edited for NPOV. The Anome 07:16 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:I agree!66.41.126.203 02:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What suggestions do you have for improvements? Just saying NPOV is useless. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: If it is considered correct, can someone add the additional meaning that monosexuality refers to bigendered people who are attracted to a single gender, irrespective of which gender they are identifying as?
Of course, bigendered doesn't have an article either, I use the term for lack of finding a specific term for someone who identifies strongly as both male and female. Transgendered isn't a very specific tag and cross gender, genderqueer, cross-dressing and transvestite are incorrect. However, I've never found a non-subjective reference to bigenderism, so not very verifiable :(. -Unknown
:You may want to look up genderqueer for what you're describing. While I understand your problem with the others, I think genderqueer is accurate, though perhaps not very specific. Genderless, transgender (which despite main use for MtF and FtM does at its root mean 'beyond' gender or supra-gender), and you'll like this: androgynous or Androgyne, although that might be more without sex than intersex. Ah yeah, intersex works too. You probably don't want to use the word hermaphrodite as that has physical rather than mental connotations. Oh shit, just found this *scribbles in* pangender. That might apply. Maybe make up a word like... bigender. After all there are differences between bisexual and pansexual so you might make a differentiation here. On the other hand, since it's a sole individual, I'm doubting it would be the same kind of situation, so I'd just use pangender if I were you.
:Anyway, going with your original question, yes, monosexuality works for what you are describing. The main difficulty is that you can't class what you're calling as either homosexuality or heterosexuality since you don't identify with a gender. Even MtF and FtM do not have this problem as they can always class it with their assumed gender. What you may need to do is invent new terminology... such as male-attracted or female-attracted (though perhaps, nicer looking fancier words). These terms could then apply to people's sole form of monosexuality without denoting their own sex, and can also be used to describe half of both homosexuals and heterosexuals. For example, sole female-attracted would include heterosexual males and lesbian femasles, as well as those without gender ID who like only females. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bigender considerations

message: I was a witness to the "monosexual" flamewars of 1993-94, so this is kind of a nostalgic blast from the past for me. Were you there too?
Anyway, I've balanced out the article from my so-called "mono" perspective, but I'm not competent to respond to the extraodinary view of the transgendered in the final paragraph. I think the page should be reviewed and edited by members of the transgender community. If you can't tell, I think the article has a tiny little NPOV problem. Meanwhile, the paragraph on Kinsey makes no sense because:
#you misquote his numbers, and
#you speak as if in this paragraph "monosexual" meant "homosexual", leaving heterosexuals out of the category.
DanB DanD 00:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dang, the article really should be including references to both. It is just probably more prominently homophobia keeping people from identifying with bisexuality since more people are hetero than homo sexual and more phobic of entering a minority. Do you know the accurate Kinsey stats? You could input them. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Holy COW, BRAZEN

message: I've removed the Google Groups link to soc.bi, but only because it was 1/ obscenely long and 2/ didn't actually point even vaguely at the mentioned flamewar. IceKarmaॐ 21:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dang, I would have liked to read that, I'll sign up for that group on my Google Groups. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Soc.* flamewars

message: Shouldn't this be merged with monosexism?Arbol25 08:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: I think this article needs disambiguation. Monosexual is also a term which describes people who have sex with themselves. Trilobitealive 15:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please produce a cite for this definition. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:08, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambiguation needed 

message: I'm  someone who want to translate this entry into chinese language.I ask for help, because i can't understand the last sentence in paragraph contraversy, I hope someboby could tell me, what does whether it was simply the justified bisexual response to a frequently biphobic gay and lesbian culture mean. Does bisexual in this context refer to people or something else ? I'll be very appreciated ! Blankego 10:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of the last sentence in para. contraversy

message: I didn't know there was a controversy nowadays as it is generally an accepted term. Therefore I dispute the usage of such a strongly worded controversy section, unless citations are found. CorviCorvus (talk) 08:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy? 

message: This really doesn't rate as a stub. This is a dictionary entry, and even the greenest noob must realize that Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
For what it's worth, I first encountered the term monosexual being used as a putdown of heterosexuals, which I found both amusing and misinformed. Apparently the thought was to conflate hetero- and mono- to indicate "limited" and therefore inferior. 
To the best of my understanding, the term is in a troika, linguistically and conceptually:
* monogamy — married to (only) one (other person); a relational form meant to clarify inheritance by producing "an heir and a spare"
* monoamory — loving (only) one (other person)
* monosexuality — having sex with (only) one (other person)
Nothing dictates that individuals must hew to all three, and indeed many don't. By this typology, many swingers are both monogamous (having one day-to-day intimate partner) and monoamorous (eschewing emotional entanglement outside the couple) yet NOT monosexual. As well, people can love others deeply without needing to express it sexually or to be bound by a contract.
So, visit the opposite extreme. The popular tendency is to use poly- though this means "many" (from polloi as in hoi polloi) which seems to be flagrant hyperbole when it's mostly used to say "two," but set that aside. The result is that we have polygamy ("marriage to more than one") and polyamory ("loving more than one"), though polysexuality (which would be "sexually involved with more than one") has instead been taken over as a means to remove "bisexuality" from the inherent gender dichotomy thing. Continued existence of that article is the only tenable reason Monosexuality should survive.Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Other than your "not a dictionary" argument, I'm not sure what you are arguing regarding the existence of this article. As you know, we can only go by what WP:Reliable sources state on this matter. And as for dictionary entries, if we are to state that this is a term article, the WP:WORDISSUBJECT section of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary is clear that we have Wikipedia articles about words. WP:WORDISSUBJECT notes that such an article must go beyond what is found in a dictionary entry on the topic. This article does go a little beyond what is found in a dictionary entry on the topic. If you want this article deleted, you can take it to AfD (WP:Afd). But as a simple Google Books search shows, this topic is WP:Notable. And it's covered in media sources such as this 2016 Bustle source, which can be used to expand society and culture aspects of the article. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:29, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarifying terminology 

message: The first coining of monosexual was by Karl Maria Kertbeny, along with normalsexual and doppelsexual, however the definition was different (but not sure what that used to mean too). Anyone knows? Would it be worthy to be mentioned in the article? Xdtp (talk) 02:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coiner 

message: Where's the biology definition?  You know of an animal that's singled sex?  Like fish and snails?  This is why we weren't allowed to use Wikki in highschool. 2600:1012:B10E:3CD:8CC9:B3FF:FE00:316E (talk) 18:26, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the biology definition? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Bunny322 (talk) 20:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality