different between sexuality vs orthosexuality

English

Etymology

sexual +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?k?u?æl?ti/, /s?ksju?æl?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?k?u?æl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• Hyphenation: sex?u?al?i?ty

Noun

sexuality (countable and uncountable, plural sexualities)

1. The quality of being sexual; that which is characterized or distinguished by sex.
   • 2003, John Harrison Burnett, Fungal Populations and Species, Oxford University Press on Demand (?ISBN), page 282:

     An alternative pattern of change from sexuality to asexuality in Ascomycotina could involve the widespread occurrence of female sterility. Both asexuality and 'female sterility' are widespread in Ascomycotina, and this may indicate that many ascomycotous Fungi Anamorphici have lost sexuality by a gradual process initiated by the loss or mutation of a gene other than an MTF resulting in 'female sterility'. […] There is also clear evidnece that loss of sexuality has occurred more than once in Talaromyces [A] and, in addition, asexual species are separated from sexual species by short branch lengths in terminal clades […]

   • 2005, G. H. Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 166:

     The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms. Only a few asexual groups are 'species' rich and ostensibly asexual […]

2. Sexual activity; concern with, or interest in, sexual activity.
3. Sexual potency.
4. Sexual orientation.
5. Sexual identity, gender.

Antonyms

• asexuality

Derived terms

Related terms

• sex
• sexual

Translations

See also

• sensuality

References

• sexuality at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sexuality in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• sexuality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

ortho- +? sexuality.

Noun

orthosexuality (uncountable)

1. (rare) The orthodox or socially accepted form of sexuality or sexual expression in a particular culture.
   • 1996, William Haver, The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS, Stanford University Press (1996), ?ISBN, pages 2-3:

     We have erected, perhaps in place of other erections, entire structures of intelligibility and comprehensibility on and around the pandemic, structures that themselves render AIDS normative and routine: the business of AIDS, constructed and carried on around an impossible object, has become—like genocide, nuclear terror, racism, misogyny, and heteronormativity (or what I would prefer to call orthosexuality)—business as usual.

   • 1998, J. Anthony Samenfink, "It's Time To Take A 'Correct' Approach To Sex Education", Chicago Tribune, 5 April 1998:

     To prevent these unintended pregnancies, it is time to take a new approach to sex education -- orthosexuality. Ortho is from the Greek meaning proper or correct, thus orthosexuality is a method of sex education that focuses on correctly channeling the sexual drive while emphasizing the importance of preventing pregnancy, AIDS and other sexual diseases.

   • 2005, Barbara Molony & Kathleen S. Uno, Gendering Modern Japanese History, Harvard University Asia Center (2005), ?ISBN, page 193:

     […] from ads in naichi (metropolitan) magazines and newspapers published inside Japan[,] in that the regulative ideal of orthosexuality was not assumed to be reproductive, monogamous marriage. In Dalian, as everywhere in the Japanese colonies, a healthy sex life for men free from what the ad calls the "bad habit of masturbation" (akushu onani) and "debilitating sexual neurasthenia" (seiteki shinkei suijaku) would begin for most Japanese men by hygienically following the advice in the colonial newspaper's weekly column called "Using the Red-Light District" (kary?shi).

Related terms

• orthosexual