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other-sexual en · ADJ

Etymology

From other + sexual.

Meanings

1. (rare) Of or relating to sexual orientation toward a different sex from one's own; heterosexual; allosexual.
   • At the center of the social site, patrons, like other Latin American homosexuals, engage in rituals of sexual exchange enmeshed in the matrix of social relations—homosexual, heterosexual, and other-sexual—produced in and by the space. 1997, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ramón Grosfoguel, Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism - Page 217:
   • More recently, Rule, Ambady, Adams, and Macrae (2007) have shown an other-sexual orientation effect, such that targets of one's own sexual orientation were better recognized than were targets in the outgroup. Not only were perceivers able ... 2013, Donal E. Carlston, The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition - Page 182:

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