• sexualise(chieflyBritish)

Fromsexual +‎-ize.

sexualize (third-person singular simple presentsexualizes,present participlesexualizing,simple past and past participlesexualized)

1. (transitive) Torendersexual, or applysex appeal to (a person, thing, orconcept).

   Children’s beauty pageantssexualize childhood.

   • 1991, Steven Seidman,Romantic Longings‎^[1], page121:

     I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts tosexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.

   • 2011,Jeffrey Weeks,The Languages of Sexuality, Routledge, page158:

     […] the adoption of the veil by Muslim women in West European countries is often justified as a mark of their autonomy, a breakaway from thesexualizing influences of Western culture.

   • 2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ,Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming‎^[2], Georgia State University,page36:

     […] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,”[…] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overlysexualizes things) are angered by her actions,[…]

   • 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, inWomen's Health‎^[3]:

     “Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been sosexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”

2. (biology,transitive) Todistinguish as belonging to separate sexes.

• desexualize

• sexualization

sexualize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofsexualizar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

sexualize

1. inflection ofsexualizar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative