Antierotic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Opposing the erotic.
"Gay sons thus exposed to shaming antierotic messages and punitive antierotic actions generally internalize the parental erotophobia to the point of imploding sexually by becoming self-homophobic."
- 2 Contrary to the eros; sexually dampening or off-putting.
"I have never shared his fantasy. The standard male images exalted by both gays and straights I find anti-erotic. Which isn't to say I'm never attracted by muscular men, only that I am by temperament a resolute anti-Platonist: I am not at all interested in ideal types, but rather individuals."
Example
More examples"Gay sons thus exposed to shaming antierotic messages and punitive antierotic actions generally internalize the parental erotophobia to the point of imploding sexually by becoming self-homophobic."
Etymology
From anti- + erotic.
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