Definition of "sexualist"
sexualist
noun
plural sexualists
(botany) One who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.
Quotations
But if this is at all an argument, it is one from which the sexualist has but little to fear; as in the case of slips and layers there is in fact no production of a new individual, but merely a prolongation of the old; or at best a multiplication by means of division, as in the case of the Polypi: and although plants are capable of being multiplied in this manner, it is no proof that they may not be propagated by means of sexual intercourse also.
1816, Patrick Keith, A System of Physiological Botany - Volume 2, page 341
Both the asexualist Spallanzini and the sexualist Erasmus Darwin cited Koelreuter, and the German botanist Johann Hedwig, the first to describe male and female reproductive structures in nonseed plants (cryptogams), declared in 1798 that Koelreuter had demonstrated “beyond all doubt" that "propagation by sexual union takes place in the plant world also."
2017, Lincoln Taiz, Lee Taiz, Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants, page 420
It was the sexualists who successfully freed their minds from such cultural biases and glimpsed the true sexual nature of plants. The sexualists went on to demonstrate the presence of both the sexual and asexual generations in the life cycles of all plants, as revealed by Hofmeister's great synthesis, thus enabling the asexualists to share in the ultimate solution to the puzzle.
2020, Felicia McCarren, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet: La Source 1866-2014, page 70
One who promotes sexual freedom.
Quotations
In a published editorial conversation about I Am Curious (Yellow), Jonas Sima ponders whether Sjöman should be considered a "sexualist" or a socialist. He argues that Sjöman's goal may have been primarily to tear down sexual taboos, not to reform, let alone revolutionize, society.
2016, Elisabet Björklund, Mariah Larsson, Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution, page 58
adjective
comparative more sexualist, superlative most sexualist
Engaging in sexualism; discriminating based on someone's sexuality.
Quotations
One would suggest that Iraqis have always been extraordinarily xenophobic, intolerant, racist, patriarchal, sexist, and sexualist.
2011, Brendan O'Leary, How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity, page 211
Pertaining to Linnaeus' sexual system of botanical classification.
Quotations
Even Robert Thornton, who defends the sexualist system in his introduction to New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, inadvertently reveals botany's fraught reputation as unmanly and nonanalytical: "by this analytical mode of studying Botany we rise far superior to the Contempt which is commonly cast on this lovely Science, by those who are ignorant of our Procedure... it must be allowed on every side to be a manly sort of Puzzle, as amusing as it is instructive."
2003, Amy King, Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, page 57
By the mid-nineteenth century, the international careers of botanists, the visibility of illustrations and botanical texts point to a broad readership and familiarity with sexualist botany on a European scale.
2020, Felicia McCarren, One Dead at the Paris Opera Ballet: La Source 1866-2014, page 62
Based on or deriving from sexuality.
Quotations
Sexual discourse too becomes entirely phantasmatic when sex itself, the critical reduction of moral and social mystification that it used to be, becomes the mode of rationalisation of a problem situated at the level of the total symbolic destruction of social relations, an examination of the sexualist discourse contributes to locking away under a security code.
1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141
See also La Grasserie (1904:227), who argued that the languages of uncivilized societies lack sex-gender systems "precisely because of that extreme easiness of sexual relations" among their speakers. Under conditions of promiscuity, the "sexualist idea" would be of relatively little power or interest.
2014, Susan Gal, Kathryn Woolard, Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority
Quotations
The reasons for women discrimination in Islam are mainly sexist, sexualist and sensuous: the men do not have to look at a woman ahead of them as this might make the men aroused. Imam Nawawi is credited to have justified the sexualist, ghostly, censored and second-class allocation of women Islamic preachers as follows: "If a woman leads a man in a congregational prayer, the prayer is invalid. As for her prayer, and the prayer of the women praying with her, it is sound."
2012, Steve Esomba, Wall Streets Infected By Arab Spring, page 41