| 释义 |
ambiˈsexual, a.
[f. ambi- + sexual a.]
Of both sexes, bisexual; sexually attracted by or attractive to persons of either sex; of clothing, (that may be) worn by both men and women; not sexually distinctive, unisex. Cf. bisexual a. 2.
1938Biol. Bull. LXXV. 283 The activation of the male constituents of the primary ambisexual gonad always precedes the development of such secondary..behaviouristic sexual characteristics. 1947J. Lees-Milne Diary 19 Feb. (1983) 136 Eddy stoutly denied the possibility of persons being ambisexual. 1969Daily Tel. 29 May 16/5 The strip [sc. Sunset Boulevard] today is largely hippie record shops, ambi-sexual clothes stores, blue cinemas and psychedelic bars. 1975Money & Tucker Sexual Signatures (1976) i. 16 It is safe to say that every adult human being has, in fantasy, engaged in some sort of bisexual behavior..at some time in his or her life. ‘Ambisexual’ describes the human race more accurately than ‘heterosexual’, ‘homosexual’, or even ‘bisexual’, although the degree of ambisexuality varies in intensity from one person to the next. 1980Maledicta IV. 59 The ancient Greeks, who gave us many of these synonyms, did not have a term for homosexuality, since they themselves were usually ambisexual.
So ambisexuˈality.
1924H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) II. iii. 81 Ferenczi, again..accepts ‘the psychic capacity of the child to direct his originally objectless eroticism to one or both sexes’, and terms this disposition ambisexuality. 1972N. Saunders Alternative London xxi. 225 Probably the ambisexuality of fashion has done more to bring about changes in attitude than any other single thing. |