Definitions
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- adjective Opposing
sexual intercourse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They thus tend, when we are in our normal condition, to arouse what James calls the antisexual instinct.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Hefner dismisses what she describes as the "puritanical, antisexual, antimale" wing of feminism, but she nonetheless identifies herself as a feminist, declaring, "To say you're not a feminist is virtually the same thing as saying you're a racist."
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As the slogan ‘innocence in danger’ already indicates, this group promotes an extremly paranoid and antisexual ‘philosophy’ or rather attitude.
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As the slogan ‘innocence in danger’ already indicates, this group promotes an extremly paranoid and antisexual ‘philosophy’ or rather attitude.
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Goethe's phrase -- except on very close contact, and on this account, and on account of the fact that it is a predominantly emotional sense, personal odors in ordinary social intercourse are less likely to arouse the sexual instinct than the antisexual instinct.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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This intimacy of touch and the reaction against its sexual approximations leads to what James has called "the _antisexual instinct_, the instinct of personal isolation, the actual repulsiveness to us of the idea of intimate contact with most of the persons we meet, especially those of our own sex."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Personal odor, in order to make its allurement felt, and not to arouse antipathy, must, in normal persons, have been preceded by conditions which have inhibited the play of the antisexual instinct.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899
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Becoming a husband and father turns a man into a baby or a woman, removed from the company of men by diaper duty and other antisexual domestic chores.
NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2011
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If nothing else these antisexual spite merchants are consistent in their ignorance and haughtiness.
Canadian Cynic 2009
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While Ogden's confirmation marked a significant setback for the antisexual right, it should be remembered that he will take his orders from Attorney General Eric Holder, and that Holder, in turn, answers to Obama, so much remains to be seen about future DOJ policy, and about where Obama will go with regard to the full spectrum of sex-related political issues.
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