monosexual en · ADJ
Etymology
From mono- + sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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[…]
2003, Pete Sigal, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207: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.
2017 September 28, David A. Rubin, Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 63:On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.
2018 August 22, Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982, Vintage, →ISBN:
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(not-comparable) Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.
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 […]
2013 May 13, Karen Lovaas, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, Routledge, →ISBN:[…] 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[…]
2020 October 7, Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, J. E. Sumerau, Nik M. Lampe, Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 11:
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fr monosexuel (sexually attracted to only one sex/gender) · el μονοφυλοφιλικός (sexually attracted to only one sex/gender) · fr monosexuel (composed of, or relating to, only one sex.)