Orthosexuality

Quick meaning: Orthosexuality is a noun meaning (rare) The orthodox or socially accepted form of sexuality or sexual expression in a particular culture.

Meaning

(rare) The orthodox or socially accepted form of sexuality or sexual expression in a particular culture.

Example Sentences

To prevent these unintended pregnancies, it is time to take a new approach to sex education -- orthosexuality. Ortho is from the Greek meaning proper or correct, thus orthosexuality is a method of sex education that focuses on correctly channeling the sexual drive while emphasizing the importance of preventing pregnancy, AIDS and other sexual diseases.

We have erected, perhaps in place of other erections, entire structures of intelligibility and comprehensibility on and around the pandemic, structures that themselves render AIDS normative and routine: the business of AIDS, constructed and carried on around an impossible object, has become—like genocide, nuclear terror, racism, misogyny, and heteronormativity (or what I would prefer to call orthosexuality)—business as usual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include solosexuality, homonormativity, sexuality, monosexuality, homonormalization, mononormativity.

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