running counter to that which is sexual, countering sex(uality)edit
1995, Glen O. Gabbard, Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, Amer Psychiatric Pub Incorporated (→ISBN), volume 1, pages 1847-48:
Modification of the Immediate Causes of Hypoactive Sexual Desire : Some Behavioral / Cognitive Interventions
It is the purpose of the cognitive - behavioral assignments of sex therapy to modify these countersexual behaviors. If this can be accomplished, the patient will be cured; that is, his or her libido will rise or return to a normal level.
1960, Edoardo Weiss, The Structure and Dynamics of the Human Mind, Saunders:
page 206: Externalization of countersexual id urges are revealed very early in the child. They are constitutionally determined. Failure of the girl to externalize phallic urges leads to “penis envy.” This is such a frequent occurrence that Freud was led to the ...
page 305: Some ego states must be externalized in normal emotional development as, for instance, countersexual features and tendencies, the externalization of which then arouses in the ego a longing for a countersexual partner.
counter to and outside existing sexual binaries (male/female, gay/straight, kink/vanilla, etc), open to new sexualitiesedit
2018, Paul B. Preciado, Countersexual Manifesto, Columbia University Press (→ISBN):
[The] dildo and all of its [...] semantic variations—such as cigars, pistols, nightsticks, dollars—shall be used by all bodies or speaking subjects within the framework of fictitious, reversible, and consensual countersexual contracts until the biopenis is made fully destitute.
2020, Elliot Evans, The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability, Routledge (→ISBN):
[...] pour établir une relation contra-sexuelle' [The countersexual society inherits the practical knowledge of SM communities and adopts temporary countersexual contracts as a principal way of establishing countersexual relationships] (29).
