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bisexual, a. and n.|baɪˈsɛksjuːəl, -ʃ(j)ʊəl|
[f. bi- prefix2 1 + sexual, f. L. sexus.]
A. adj.
1. Of two sexes; spec. having both sexes in the same individual.
1824Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 204 The very old tradition of the homo androgynus, that is, that the original man..was bi-sexual. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. V. 116/2 In all the bisexual Crustacea the ova are fecundated while still within the body of the female parent. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §3. 191 A flower which possesses stamens and pistils is Bisexual.
2. Sexually attracted to individuals of both sexes. Cf. ambisexual a.
1914Amer. Med. IX. 531/1 By nature all human beings are psychically bisexual — capable of loving a person of either sex. 1955R. Lindner Fifty-Minute Hour 213 Persons like Anton are neither homosexual nor heterosexual, but bisexual. 1956E. Fromm Art of Loving ii. 33 Just as physiologically man and woman each have hormones of the opposite sex, they are bisexual also in the psychological sense. 1966M. Duffy Microcosm 252 Then she asked me to come back but so many things she'd done had left a taste in my mouth, and besides she was bi-sexual and I've never been interested in that. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion iii. ii. 238 It was the Seventies now, and the rock stars and Beautiful People had made it suddenly chic to be bisexual. 1986P. Booth Palm Beach x. 172 Jo-Anne tells me there's another problem, Lisa. I didn't know you were bisexual.
B. n.
a. A hermaphrodite. rare.
b. A person who is sexually attracted to members of both sexes.
1922‘R. Werther’ Female Impersonators i. iv. 43 As a result, male bisexuals are goody-goody boys who develop into ultra-religious adolescents. 1931Med. Jrnl. & Rec. CXXXIII. 382/1, I have heard this ‘history’ many times, not only from normal men.., but also from bisexuals and homosexuals. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 405/1 Effeminate man or masculine woman..bisexual, eerquay, freak. 1970N. Saunders Alternative London xx. 145 True bi-sexuals, who can have emotionally warm relationships with either sex are very rare. 1978Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Aug. t7/4 She was also upset, she said, that so many people had assumed she was a lesbian or bisexual because her character in the movie, Tanya, was bisexual. |