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Note: This article needs to be edited for NPOV. The Anome 07:16 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
If it is considered correct, can someone add the additional meaning that monosexuality refers to bigendered people who are attracted to a single gender, irrespective of which gender they are identifying as?
Of course, bigendered doesn't have an article either, I use the term for lack of finding a specific term for someone who identifies strongly as both male and female. Transgendered isn't a very specific tag and cross gender, genderqueer, cross-dressing and transvestite are incorrect. However, I've never found a non-subjective reference to bigenderism, so not very verifiable :(. -Unknown
I was a witness to the "monosexual" flamewars of 1993-94, so this is kind of a nostalgic blast from the past for me. Were you there too?
Anyway, I've balanced out the article from my so-called "mono" perspective, but I'm not competent to respond to the extraodinary view of the transgendered in the final paragraph. I think the page should be reviewed and edited by members of the transgender community. If you can't tell, I think the article has a tiny little NPOV problem. Meanwhile, the paragraph on Kinsey makes no sense because:
DanB DanD 00:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Same sex = homosexual, opposite sex = heterosexual... Has it not always been that way? "Monosexual" is semantic nonsense. -Unknown
I've removed the Google Groups link to soc.bi, but only because it was 1/ obscenely long and 2/ didn't actually point even vaguely at the mentioned flamewar. IceKarmaॐ 21:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Unisexual is already taken up by an article on plant biology. Due to that, I think monosexual is still the best place to keep this article. Even so, I put a disambig link here. On this page, I think we should consider listing unisexual as an alternative word for it. Obivously, monosexual arose as to describe a contrary state to bisexuality. Bi being 2. But traditionally with prefixes, such as bicycle, the singular would be unicycle. Shouldn't this case mirror that and be called unisexual? Mono is attached to monogamous, which is perhaps why it is associated with this, but I've certainly never heard of the word bigamous, mainly polygamous. Perhaps I am not familiar, but I say it deserves some consideration, if only to list both. I didn't just add it because I want feedback from others before doing this. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
its a hybrid word
Shouldn't this be merged with monosexism?Arbol25 08:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I think this article needs disambiguation. Monosexual is also a term which describes people who have sex with themselves. Trilobitealive 15:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, a monosexual has sex ONLY with themselves and no one else.
One may sink into monosexuality in various stages of life, and then later emerge. A person of any sexual orientation may also be monosexual, so monosexuality is not a sexual orientation as such. Monosexuality is a process more than a lifestyle, however extreme monosexuality (onanism) can become a very negative influence and lead to public humiliation and ostracism.
I'm someone who want to translate this entry into chinese language.I ask for help, because i can't understand the last sentence in paragraph contraversy, I hope someboby could tell me, what does whether it was simply the justified bisexual response to a frequently biphobic gay and lesbian culture mean. Does bisexual in this context refer to people or something else ? I'll be very appreciated ! Blankego 10:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
I think it means that "monosexual" is sort a slur against the gay community. Traditionally, gay communities tend/ed to be fairly stratified and anyone who doesn't/didn't fit in to that particular majority group (IE: white, black, male, female, et cetera) was somewhat shunned. In this context, bisexuals using monosexual as an insult is a reaction to their being excluded. I type this based on my perception of things that haven't happened to me (for lack of a better word: gay folk-lore) so I could very well be mistaken.71.221.20.213 02:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I didn't know there was a controversy nowadays as it is generally an accepted term. Therefore I dispute the usage of such a strongly worded controversy section, unless citations are found. CorviCorvus (talk) 08:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
So basicly this term has been stolen by gays, lesbians and heterosexuals? And somehow I find none of you interesting? I love myself more than both sexes. Both sexes are damn stupid. I don't care what kind of sex you love. You can fuck animals for all I care. Dont steal what I am because you doubt yourself or want others to doubt. Monosexual! I'll fuck myself before I'll fuck you.
Wikipedia is not a forum. Keep your personal opinions, trolling, and ranings to yourself.
This really doesn't rate as a stub. This is a dictionary entry, and even the greenest noob must realize that Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
For what it's worth, I first encountered the term monosexual being used as a putdown of heterosexuals, which I found both amusing and misinformed. Apparently the thought was to conflate hetero- and mono- to indicate "limited" and therefore inferior.
To the best of my understanding, the term is in a troika, linguistically and conceptually:
Nothing dictates that individuals must hew to all three, and indeed many don't. By this typology, many swingers are both monogamous (having one day-to-day intimate partner) and monoamorous (eschewing emotional entanglement outside the couple) yet NOT monosexual. As well, people can love others deeply without needing to express it sexually or to be bound by a contract.
So, visit the opposite extreme. The popular tendency is to use poly- though this means "many" (from polloi as in hoi polloi) which seems to be flagrant hyperbole when it's mostly used to say "two," but set that aside. The result is that we have polygamy ("marriage to more than one") and polyamory ("loving more than one"), though polysexuality (which would be "sexually involved with more than one") has instead been taken over as a means to remove "bisexuality" from the inherent gender dichotomy thing. Continued existence of that article is the only tenable reason Monosexuality should survive.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:08, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
The first coining of monosexual was by Karl Maria Kertbeny, along with normalsexual and doppelsexual, however the definition was different (but not sure what that used to mean too). Anyone knows? Would it be worthy to be mentioned in the article? Xdtp (talk) 02:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
Where's the biology definition? You know of an animal that's singled sex? Like fish and snails? This is why we weren't allowed to use Wikki in highschool. 2600:1012:B10E:3CD:8CC9:B3FF:FE00:316E (talk) 18:26, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
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