pansexualist

English

Etymology

From pansexualism or pansexual +‎ -ist.

Adjective

pansexualist (not comparable)

1. (psychology) Pertaining to or promoting the psychological theory of pansexualism.
   • 1992, Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 256:

     Wilhelm Fliess's critic Henning commented about both Fliess and Freud in this light when he complained of their joint efforts to displace the Darwinian "principle of selection" in favor of a rampant pansexualist philosophy (1910:232).

Noun

pansexualist (plural pansexualists)

1. (psychology) A proponent of the psychological theory of pansexualism.
   • 2013, Paul Halmos, Solitude and Privacy: A Study of Social Isolation, its Causes and Therapy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 9:

     Even Wilhelm Reich, who could be described as a more radical pansexualist than Freud himself, could not help speculating on the following lines...

   • 2006, Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 149:

     Yet Freud, one must insist, was not a pansexualist. He rejected the epithet with considerable acerbity, not because he was secretly a one-sided adulator of libido, but because, quite simply; he thought that his denigrators were wrong.

   • 2011, Frank McLynn, Captain Cook: Master of the Seas, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 138:

     Both he and Banks were alarmed to find clear and unmistakable evidence of cannibalism, although it was the practice of sodomy that most intrigued Banks; although a voracious heterosexual, he was hardly a pansexualist.

2. (rare, sometimes derogatory) A person who is attracted, or who is able to experience attraction, to everyone and everything.
   • 1997, Alix Aurora Casteel, "Man and wife": gender-roles and family-roles in antebellum American literature:

     Whitman is a pansexualist. He makes love with, among others, the sun, the night, the earth, the sea, and the winds (W 30, 49, 53). His synecdochic perception results in his genitalized identification with his environment, including the people around him. The spermatic trope works well to explain the nature of Whitman's decentered phallus. If "sex contains all," sperm describes all (W 101). It also works well to describe the nature of his pansexualist eros.

   • 2004, James L. Garlow, Peter Jones, Cracking Da Vinci's Code, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 183:

     If sexual orgasm is the royal way to knowledge of God, perhaps such orgasm doesn't have to occur only with a woman. Maybe, as the gays and pansexualists claim, any kind of orgasm will qualify.

   • 2011, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Del Rey, →ISBN:

     Androgyny implies a recognition of the full sexual potential of each individual. Former distinctions were abandoned. It was no longer regarded as improper to pursue a relationship of male to male or female to female; nor was it required to have two partners in a relationship. Practices ranging from onanism to mass interplay were accepted. The pansexualists held that androgyny was needlessly limiting in scope. If one could relate to any man or woman—why not to a giraffe? A condor?