Definition of "monosexual"
monosexual
adjective
not comparable
Composed of, or relating to, only one sex.
Quotations
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, 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, page 63
Sexually attracted to members of only one sex or gender.
Quotations
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
[…] 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, page 11
noun
plural monosexuals
Quotations
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.
1976, Robert R. Bell, “Female Homosexuality”, in Social deviance: A substantive analysis (The Dorsey Series in Sociology), Revised edition, Dorsey Press, page 313
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.
2014 December 16, Chuck Stewart, Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page 87