sexualisms

Noun

sexualism (usually uncountable, plural sexualisms)

1. (usually) The quality of being sexual; a sex-oriented approach or focus.
   • Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
2. (usually) A social theory first introduced by Aline Valette (1850—1899) that promoted socialism with preferential treatment of women because of their role in reproducing the species.
   • When Valette, following Bonnier's philosophy, proposed to women that they adopt sexualism as their "true religion," she recast an old idea.1978, Marilyn J. Boxer, Jean Helen Quataert, Socialist Women, →ISBN
3. (usually) The belief that one set of sexual behaviors is intrinsically superior to another set of sexual behaviors, or prejudice and discrimination based on that belief.
   • We find analogous phenomena in this Medical sexualism. Our readers cannot but have been struck with the sentiments of " One Cognisant of the Facts ” in defence of a daughter being taught to pass the catheter for her own father. ...Grant the principle that all the natural instincts of humanity in...1870, The Medical Times and Gazette