[17] Boston Corbett, who was involved in killing John Wilkes Booth, castrated himself after being mocked and tempted by prostitutes.
[19][better source needed] Father Divine, founder of the International Peace Mission Movement, advocated religious abstinence from sex and marriage and taught that sexual objectification is a root cause of undesirable social and political conditions.
[20] James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time refers to the United States as an antisexual country dominated by a white culture that regards sensual or soulful behavior by Black Americans as suspect.
[21] Philosopher Immanuel Kant viewed humans as being subject to the animalistic desires of self-preservation, species-preservation, and the preservation of enjoyment.
[29] Ti-Grace Atkinson wrote of heterosexual sex as a social institution serving the needs of men but not necessarily of women.
[30] Radical feminist writer Julie Bindel describing female bisexuality as a "fashionable trend" pushing for sexual hedonism.
"[35] Antisexualism drew sharp criticism from Bertrand Russell in his Marriage and Morals: Westermarck gives many instances of what he calls 'the curious notion that there is something impure and sinful in ... sexual relations.'
According to Bertrand Russell, an anti-sexual attitude must be regarded as purely superstitious and those who first inculcated antisexualism must have suffered from a diseased condition of body or mind, or both.
[37] John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the corn flakes variety of breakfast cereal, was opposed to all forms of sexual activity, especially masturbation.