sexualists

Noun

sexualist (plural sexualists)

1. One who believes that plants reproduce by sexual reproduction, especially one who accepts the sexual classification method of Linnaeus.
   • But if this is at all an argument, it is one from which the sexualist has but little to fear; as in the case of slips and layers there is in fact no production of a new individual, but merely a prolongation of the old; or at best a multiplication by means of division, as in the case of the Polypi...1816, Patrick Keith, A System of Physiological Botany - Volume 2, page 341
2. One who is very sexual; A person who is very lusty.
   • My interest was centered in what I call "the true homosexual:" the man who has male genitals, who is an active male sexualist, and who likes to play with other male genitals.2006, James Thomas Sears, Behind the Mask of the Mattachine
3. (usually) Someone with a specified type of sexuality.
   • Reminiscences out of his infantile preiod were utilized in the neruosis, as a result of which he came near being the victim of a homo-sexualist.1917, Alfred Adler, The Neurotic constitution, page 141
4. One who promotes sexual freedom.
   • A much more thoroughgoing sexualist was Wilhelm Reich who advocated sexual freedom for adolescents, children and married people.1972, Richard H. Rush, The Wrecking Operation: Phase One, page 94

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