Antisexual

Quick meaning: Antisexual is an adjective meaning Opposing or disapproving of sexual intercourse.

Meaning

Opposing or disapproving of sexual intercourse.

More Meanings

1. Suppressing or reducing sexual desire; anaphrodisiac.
2. One who is opposed to sex or to (teaching, researching, expressing, etc) sexuality.

Example Sentences

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Among this group are the solanacei alkaloids, that have a decided anti-sexual tendency. Such plants and similar anaphrodisiacs were often used, especially in the Middle Ages, to promote asceticism and, in the case of monks, to diminish fleshly desires.

As more and more heterosexual Americans become aware of homosexuals as human beings instead of archetypes of evil, antisexual society once again needs to find a new class of perverts loathsome enough to serve as the vehicles for the general suppression of sexual deviance.

But as the Church through the centuries grew in power and scope - with its monks and their mutilations and asceticisms, and its celibate clergy, and its absolute refusal to recognize the sexual meaning of its own acclaimed symbols (like the Cross, the three fingers of Benediction, the Fleur de Lys and so forth) - it more and more consistently defined itself as anti-sexual in its outlook, and stood out in that way in marked contrast to the earlier Nature-religions.

Word Forms

• antisexuals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antisex, antibisexual, antiheterosexual, anti-heterosexist, antistraight, antihomosexual.

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