Definitions
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- noun The belief that one set of
sexual behaviors is intrinsically superior to another set of sexual behaviors. - noun Sexual
prejudice ordiscrimination ; discrimination against people with a different sexual preference based on that belief.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gee; I wonder if anti-sexualism plays a role here.
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The present study would disapprove the social stigma that trans-sexualism is simply a lifestyle choice, the findings support a biological basis of how gender identity develops.
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In our America, everyday expression and curses have sexual connotations, sexualism defines our dressing, our quests, our essence; however, we do not want it on TV.
Was a federal court right to toss the fine over Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction? | EW.com 2008
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The political trends are so - a sexualism is changing.
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The political trends are so - a sexualism is changing.
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The findings from so far the largest genetic study of male to female trans-sexualism was published online today in Biological Psychiatry.
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In the face of sexualism, divorce, and selfish individualism, it requires patience and optimism to believe that the family will continue to exist and the home be maintained.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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A careful study of Krafft-Ebing's monumental work upon the subject should convince our lawyers that they could not proceed in these cases without the assistance of the alienist and of those who are experts in the diagnosis of the various forms of patho-sexualism.
A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908
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He objects to that idolatry of sexualism which makes it the fountain of all forcible enthusiasms; he dislikes the amorous drama which makes the female the only key to the male.
George Bernard Shaw 1905
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"Such women are generally more licentious -- that is to say, more acquainted with the bizarre in sexualism -- than girls who come from shops or bars; they show a knowledge of _fellatio_, and even anal coitus, and during menstruation frequently suggest inter-mammary coitus."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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