Sexuality the Began with the Word

Homosexuality, the Catalyst for Coining Sexual Orientation Words

Etymology of Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Transexuality, Polysexuality, Pansexuality, and Asexuality.

Heterosexuality
Hetero- comes from the Greek word έτερος [héteros], meaning "other party" or "another",[3] used in science as a prefix meaning "different";[4] and the Latin word for sex (that is, characteristic sex or sexual differentiation). The term "heterosexual" was first published in 1892 in C.G. Chaddock's translation of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis". The noun came into use from the early 1920s, but did not enter common use until the 1960s. The colloquial shortening "hetero" is attested from 1933. The abstract noun "heterosexuality" is first recorded in 1900.[5] The word "heterosexual" was first listed in Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary as a medical termfor "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex"; however, in 1934 in their Second Edition Unabridged it is defined as a "manifestation of sexual passion for one of the opposite sex; normal sexuality".[6] The adjective heterosexual is used for intimate relationships or sexual relations between male and female.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality#Etymology

Homosexuality

The word homosexual is a Greek and Latin hybrid, with the first element derived from Greek ὁμός homos, "same" (not related to the Latin homo, "man", as in Homo sapiens), thus connoting sexual acts and affections between members of the same sex, including lesbianism.[20][21] The first known appearance of homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet by the Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny, published anonymously,[22] arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law.[22][23] In 1886, the psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing used the terms homosexual and heterosexual in his book Psychopathia Sexualis. Krafft-Ebing's book was so popular among both laymen and doctors that the terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" became the most widely accepted terms for sexual orientation.[24][25] As such, the current use of the term has its roots in the broader 19th-century tradition of personality taxonomy

Bisexuality
"attraction to both sexes" 1892, in translation of Krafft-Ebing; see bisexual + -ity. Earlier "quality of having the organs of both sexes" (1850).
Transexuality

Norman Haire reported that in 1921,[10] Dora R of Germany began a surgical transition, under the care of Magnus Hirschfeld, which ended in 1930 with a successful genital reassignment surgery. In 1930, Hirschfeld supervised the second genital reassignment surgery to be reported in detail in a peer-reviewed journal, that of Lili Elbe of Denmark. In 1923, Hirschfeld introduced the (German) term "Transsexualismus",[11] after which David Oliver Cauldwell introduced "transsexualism" and "transsexual" to English in 1949 and 1950.[12][13]
Polysexuality
The word polysexual comes from the Greek prefix poly-, meaning “many” and -sexual, as used as combining form. The term has been around since the 1920s or ‘30s.

One interesting attestation of polysexual appears in a 1974 article in Stereo Review by Noel Coppage. In this article, Coppage mentions “asexual, bisexual, polysexual, [and] pansexual” pop stars, and calls out David Bowie, in particular. This is notable because it sets polysexuality apart from bisexuality and pansexuality.

http://www.dictionary.com/meaning/polysexual

Pansexuality
The prefix pan- comes from the ancient Greek word for "all, every", πᾶν; omni- comes from the Latin word for "all", omnis. The hybrid words pansexual and pansexualism were first attested in 1917, denoting the idea "that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical",[8][10] a reproach (credited to Sigmund Freud) levelled at early psychology.[8][10][11]
Asexuality
A 1977 paper entitled Asexual and Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups, by Myra T. Johnson, may be the first paper explicitly devoted to asexuality in humans. She contrasts autoerotic women with asexual women: "The asexual woman [...] has no sexual desires at all [but] the autoerotic woman [...] recognizes such desires but prefers to satisfy them alone." Johnson's evidence is mostly letters to the editor found in women's magazines written by asexual/autoerotic women. She portrays them as invisible, "oppressed by a consensus that they are nonexistent," and left behind by both the sexual revolution and the feminist movement. Society either ignores or denies their existence or insists they must be ascetic for religious reasons, neurotic, or asexual for political reasons.[1]


“'Heterosexuality' hadn’t existed until the 19th century.”

-Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Bibliography

Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, 1995



Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, Chauncey


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