Terms vs Omnisexual - What's the difference?
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Pansexual.
* {{quote-book
, date = 1986-07-01
, chapter = Sexuality and Identity in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
, author = John Kilgore
, title = Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film
, editor = Donald Palumbo
, location = Westport
, publisher = Greenwood Press
, isbn = 9780313241024
, ol = 9355218M
, page = 155-156
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=JhnuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=omnisexual
, passage = Frank vis-à-vis Rocky is the father-mother of his husband-wife; theirs is an omnisexual relationship.
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, year = 1988
, month = August
, title = ‘Yon Plumed Dandebrat’: Male ‘Effeminacy’ in English Satire and Criticism
, author = Susan C. Shapiro
, journal = The Review of English Studies
, volume = 39
, issue = 155
, jstor = 516769
, page = 411
, passage = This omnisexual libertine who shuttles between his whore and his catamite (with equally regular visits to his tailor) has no classical prototype since aggressive bisexuality was completely acceptable as ‘masculine’ behaviour in ancient Greek society.
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* {{quote-book
, date = 1996-07-24
, title = The Sickness Called Man
, author = Ferdinando Camon
, coauthors = John Shepley
, publisher = Marlboro Press
, isbn = 9780810160156
, page = 9
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=RKEqAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=omnisexual
, passage = There was something in this that made our relationship more than homosexual, and more than heterosexual. Perhaps it could be called an omnisexual relationship.
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* {{quote-book
, date = 1998-08-01
, chapter = Sex and Sexuality
, author = James E. Miller, Jr.
, title = Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia
, editor = J. R. LeMaster, Donald D. Kummings
, publisher = Routledge
, isbn = 9780815318767
, ol = 8047568M
, page = 631
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fKJAW8Bn9ukC&pg=PA631&dq=omnisexual
, passage = In short, all readers can share, consciously and/or unconsciously, Whitman’s omnisexual' vision—' omnisexual in the all-encompassing sense of embracing auto—, homo—, and heteroerotic impulses.
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* {{quote-book
, date = 2008-05-02
, chapter = Science Fiction Television in the United Kingdom
, author = Mark Bould
, title = The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader
, editor = J. P. Telotte
, location = Lexington
, publisher = University Press of Kentucky
, isbn = 9780813172965
, page = 225
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=cFQicvXd5bwC&pg=PA225&dq=omnisexual
, passage = These Oedipal tensions are mirrored by a structural conflict between the series’ tacit multiculturalism—captured by omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, who exemplifies an exogamous future humankind that goes to the stars to “dance” with every species they meet
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Androgynous.
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, year = 1979
, month = Autumn
, title = The Labors of Psyche: Toward a Theory of Female Heroism
, author = Lee R. Edwards
, journal = Critical Inquiry
, volume = 6
, issue = 1
, jstor = 1343084
, page = 44
, passage = Psyche’s participation in the archetypical patterns of heroic action logically implies that heroism itself is an asexual or omnisexual archetype.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1998
, title = The Anatomy of Prejudices
, author = Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
, location = Cambridge
, publisher = Harvard University Press
, isbn = 9780674031913
, ol = 807099M
, passage = Historically, sameness sexism marks the disappearance of conditions in which goddess religions flourished: prepatriarchal conditions in which men imagined women as awesome, omnipotent birth-givers, omnisexual creatures with both big breasts and penises.
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Having sexuality everywhere.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1982
, month = April
, title = The History of Childhood Sexuality
, author = Sterling Fishman
, journal = Journal of Contemporary History
, volume = 17
, issue = 2
, jstor = 260566
, page = 279
, passage = Both Queen Victoria and Sigmund Freud have, however, become common adjectives in our time, one describing the Dark Ages of sexual repression, the other an omnisexual world in which everything has sexual significance.
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, year = 2009
, title = Admission
, author = Jean Hanff Korelitz
, location = New York
, publisher = Grand Central Publishing
, isbn = 9780446540704
, ol = 16928647M
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=e2H4oq-1Z4QC&pg=PT273&dq=omnisexual
, passage = To be a virgin in high school wasn't, even in the omnisexual milieu of the Pioneer Valley, such a social black spot.
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