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  • adjective Of or pertaining to multiple types of sexuality

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Examples

  • The usage of the word polysexual here is key: it is meant to mean "not just gay".

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul Flynn 2010

  • Setting up in the front of the Bowery Poetry Club, BB's slinging the grub both out of a walk-up window and over the counter, with small tables surrounded by apparently "polysexual" Southern-meets-NY decor elements including enormous orange octopus chandeliers, a hanging fixture comprised of Bowery-sourced kitchen equipment, and an oversized mirror surrounded by pictures of snakes, appropriate, as the fare will go straight to your asp.

    Thrillist: Bowery Beef: The Bowery Gets a Hot Beef Injection Thrillist 2011

  • Like Beck, combat trousers and drum'n'bass, I had long thought that the word "polysexual" was one of those odd 90s blips, confined to the margins of cultural life in a new millennium.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul Flynn 2010

  • The second tier of nightclub culture that sprang directly from radical early 90s northern gay club moments, such as Flesh and Vague, allowed "polysexual" entry into the figurative demimonde of the club flyer.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul Flynn 2010

  • Except for the homoerotic pissing contest between Jack and Rex, there's surprisingly little polysexual intrigue this week.

    Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode four 2011

  • • You know what I always look for in an edgy polysexual sci-fi noir?

    Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode four 2011

  • In this novel, the narrator fondly remembers being in a polygamous, polysexual relationship with several other people, their sexual appetites expanded by the surgical attachment of bonobo endocrine systems.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Rex, as a self-regarding dog of a man, at least recognises that family bonds have no place in an inter-planetary polysexual secret-service.

    Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode four 2011

  • In this novel, the narrator fondly remembers being in a polygamous, polysexual relationship with several other people, their sexual appetites expanded by the surgical attachment of bonobo endocrine systems.

    Personal Update and News of Sorts 2009

  • Gregg Araki's polysexual opener, Kaboom, is one of the most joyously hip apocalyptic comedies this side of Repo Man, and there's stacks of new and old talent to be discovered, from veteran Sarah Walters to Brit hot tickets Unhappy Birthday and Break My Fall.

    This week's new film events 2011

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