What is Antisexuality?
{{Distinguish|Asexuality}} '''Antisexualism''', '''sex-negativity''' or '''antisexuality''' is opposition or hostility towards [[sexual activity|sexual behavior]] and [[Human sexuality|sexuality]].<ref>{{citation |title=The politics of lust |author=John Ince |page=11 |publisher=Prometheus Books |quote=consists of any negative response directed at sex organs or harmless sex expression |isbn=978-1-59102-278-7 |year=2005}}</ref> ==Religious== Some forms of early ascetic [[Gnosticism]] held all [[matter]] to be [[evil]], and that unnecessary gratifications of the physical senses were to be avoided. Married couples were encouraged to be celibate.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBJ-KZU_XE4C&pg=PT47|title=Why you think the way you do: the story of western worldviews from Rome to Home|last=Sunshine|first=Glenn S.|page=47|publisher=Zondervan|year=2009|isbn=9780310292302|access-date=2013-08-31}}</ref> The [[Skoptsy]]s were a radical sect of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] that practiced [[castration]] and amputation of sexual organs. The Skoptsy believed that Christ had been castrated during his crucifixion, and it was this castration that brought about salvation.<ref>{{cite book|title=A mind of its own: a cultural history of the penis|last=Friedman|first=David M.|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|year=2008|isbn=9781439136089|pages=36–37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYYx-sHniI8C&pg=PA36|access-date=2013-08-31}}</ref> The [[Shakers]] was a radical [[Protestant]] sect that opposed procreation and all sexual activity. The Shakers were more opposed to pregnancy than anything else.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/13/060213crat_atlarge|title=Shining Tree of Life|first=Adam|last=Gopnik|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2006-02-13|access-date=2013-08-31}}</ref> [[John Harvey Kellogg]], the inventor of [[corn flakes]] breakfast cereal, was opposed to all forms of sexual activity, especially [[masturbation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-11/col