sexualize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).

   • Children’s beauty pageants sexualize childhood.
   • Your advertising doesn't need to sexualize goods and services to sell them to me, and in fact I might make a point of not buying your product if you pester me with sexualization.
   • I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism.
2. 2

   To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.

The neighborhood

• neighborobjectify