monosexual

From mono- +‎ sexual. In the second sense, by analogy with bisexual.

monosexual (not comparable)

1. Composed of, or relating to, only one sex.
   • 2003, Pete Sigal, Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207:

     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 […]

   • 2017 September 28, David A. Rubin, Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 63:

     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.

   • 2018 August 22, Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982, Vintage, →ISBN:

     On the other hand, he did not go to a monosexual [all-boys] school as I did, as Isherwood and his kind did.

2. Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.

   Antonyms: multisexual, plurisexual

   Coordinate term: bisexual

   • 2013 May 13, Karen Lovaas, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, Routledge, →ISBN:

     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 […]

   • 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:

     […] 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 […]

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monosexual (plural monosexuals)

1. A monosexual person.

   Antonyms: multisexual, plurisexual

   • 1968, Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge‎, Panther Books, →OCLC, page 106:

     Letitia, I fear, is a monosexual. Only men arouse her.

   • 1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology)‎, Revised edition, Dorsey Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

     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.

   • 2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 87:

     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.

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• heterosexual
• homosexual

• automonosexual
• monosexuality

• single-sex
• unisex
• unisexual