What does monosexual mean?
Monosexual means Composed of, or relating to, only one sex..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Composed of, or relating to, only one sex..
The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin. Bear in mind that in pre-industrial societies it was not easy for an individual to escape the promiscuity of everyday life, hiding his acts from his relatives[…]
And it was biopolitical in that, by assigning Barbin a "true" and "definite" identity as a man, the magistrates maintained sexual dimorphism as the law of populations, even or perhaps particularly in "monosexual" spaces such as the convent.Thus Barbin, as a person assigned to the category of maleness, could no longer belong to the world of the convent.
On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.
How are we to understand the erasure of bisexuality in some of the fundamental works of queer deconstructive theory? […] a reliance on monosexual gay/lesbian historiography […]
[…] lesbian and gay people (i.e., monosexual minorities) regardless of sex and gender identities often face significant health disparities in relation to heterosexual people, that bisexual/pansexual/queer/fluid people (i.e. non-monosexual people) face significant disparities in relation to some lesbian/gay monosexual people and to monosexual heterosexual people in particular, and that asexual people (i.e., non-monosexual and non-sexual identified people) often experience significant disparities in relation to all of these[…]
Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.
There are several other reasons for underestimating the number of lesbians. One, an effeminate male is usually associated with homosexuality, whether or not he is a monosexual. But masculine women are not usually defined as homosexual. Therefore, the defining of visual characteristics varies for men and women.
While monosexuals (gay men, heterosexuals, and lesbians) tend to describe being attracted to people of only one gender, bisexuals tend to disregard gender when assessing attractions to others.
Use monosexual when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Monosexual means Composed of, or relating to, only one sex..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include multisexual, plurisexual.
The environment was composed of the students and servants who worked in the schools of Puebla, masculine and monosexual spaces that offered a favorable ambiance for the practice of the nefarious sin. Bear in mind that in pre-industrial societies it was not easy for an individual to escape the promiscuity of everyday life, hiding his acts from his relatives[…]
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