pansexualist

adj

Etymology

From pansexualism or pansexual + -ist.

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.

    • Wilhelm Fliess's critic Henning commented about both Fliess and Freud in this light when he complained of their joint efforts to displace the Darwinian "principle of selection" in favor of a rampant pansexualist philosophy (1910:232).
  2. A proponent of the psychological theory of pansexualism.

    • Even Wilhelm Reich, who could be described as a more radical pansexualist than Freud himself, could not help speculating on the following lines...
    • Yet Freud, one must insist, was not a pansexualist. He rejected the epithet with considerable acerbity, not because he was secretly a one-sided adulator of libido, but because, quite simply; he thought that his denigrators were wrong.
    • Both he and Banks were alarmed to find clear and unmistakable evidence of cannibalism, although it was the practice of sodomy that most intrigued Banks; although a voracious heterosexual, he was hardly a pansexualist.
  3. A person who is attracted, or who is able to experience attraction, to everyone and…

    A person who is attracted, or who is able to experience attraction, to everyone and everything.

    • If sexual orgasm is the royal way to knowledge of God, perhaps such orgasm doesn't have to occur only with a woman. Maybe, as the gays and pansexualists claim, any kind of orgasm will qualify.

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