desexualization
- noun
- /ˌdiːˌsɛkʃuːəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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desexualización
- The desexualization of the characters in the film helped to focus more on their personalities rather than their physical appearances.
Examples
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In a sense, these statements reflect not so much the profession of gender equity within the ranks of the guerrilla army as the desexualization of guerrillas, particularly female guerrillas.
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A creative enterprise, which has as one of its main features the desexualization of pleasure.
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"We should be striving," Foucault repeatedly insists, "toward a desexualization, to a general economy of pleasure that would not be sexually normed."
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Mullen also observed, "... the traditional desexualization of rape does not fare well before the authors' arguments...." (Mullen, 2000, p. 11).
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Foucault explicitly recommends S/M not for its sexual kick but for its creative "desexualization of pleasure" by "inventing new possibilities with strange parts of the body through the eroticization of the body."
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That relation truly disrupts paternal authority because it undercuts the desexualization at the basis of that authority and, in the process, reveals that an important element of the son's relation to the father is to be found in the pleasure of sado-masochism.
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Many modern art movements advocate for the desexualization of themes traditionally portrayed as erotic or suggestive.
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The strategy aimed at the desexualization of fashion trends made clothing more about comfort than sensuality.
Antonyms
- NSFW
3
7.9
Presenting a person or thing in a sexual way that focuses on their body to attract attention
How Sexualized
- NSFW
3
7.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
desexualization = desexualize (transparent) = de + sexual + ize + ation
The noun is a straightforward nominalization of the verb 'desexualize' meaning the process or result of that action.
Etymology
Desexualization starts with de- meaning 'remove' and sexual meaning 'sex or sexual'. A helpful way to remember it is that it means taking away sexual signs or style from things like pictures or ads so they seem less sexual.