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… Heterosexuals are actually monosexual: one-eyed people for whom heterosexuality is self-deluding, a shield which allows the most inordinate forms of self-indulgent subjectivity.
Official First Look: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I have no idea what it's like even to be predominantly monosexual, but from where I stand it looks like things are a whole lot easier and more clear-cut when you're not really bisexual.
Myths about Bisexuality gay person of color 2009
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What may be added is that men, whether homosexual or heterosexual, tend to be more "monosexual."
Gays and Genes Hacker, Andrew 2003
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Both these varieties of dominance must therefore be described as monosexual.
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Preponderating intelligence in one of the sexes is not the cause of monosexual dominance, but conversely monosexual dominance with its accompaniments creates a semblance of preponderating intelligence in the dominant sex.
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Since, as we have just learned, the dominant sex inclines to discard the arts of bodily adornment, the result is that, when monosexual dominance prevails, the wooer is as a rule soberly attired, whereas the members of the wooed sex are gaily adorned.
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In the case of the deities, we find that there is a uniform tendency which determines their sex under monosexual dominance.
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But with the aid of our comparative study of the history of monosexual dominance we shall be able to show that this ancient assumption is false.
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All the prejudice of monosexual dominance is crudely displayed by the closing phrase.
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Amid continuous minor oscillations, androcracy among the Germans reached the pitch of monosexual absolutism, so that women were entirely restricted to domestic occupations, were excluded from higher education, were completely subordinate in married life, had practically no property rights, and so on.
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