zoosexuality
zoosexuality noun: zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
Noun
zoosexuality (uncountable)
- Zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
- 3. The term "zoosexuality", understood as sexual orientation towards animals, has been in use since the 1980s; it was popularized by Miletski's research in the 1990s.[2009, Monika Bakke, “Human-nonhuman libidinal relations”, in Tom Tyler, Manuela Rossini, editor, Animal Encounters, page 224
- ZSB posters effectively suggest that zoosexuals are misunderstood outcasts who are demonized as deviant because most people lack the mental capacity to understand human-animal sexuality. This point is further crystallized when posters neutralize the deviance of zoosexuality by comparison to other...2017, R.J. Maratea, Philip R. Kavanaugh, and Joshua Tafoya, “Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse”, in Routledge Handbook on Deviance
Origin of zoosexuality
From zoosexual + -ity. First attested in the 1980s.
Questions about zoosexuality
- What does zoosexuality mean?
- Zoosexuality means zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
- What part of speech is zoosexuality?
- Zoosexuality is a noun.
Words near zoosexuality in the dictionary
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