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Sexualize

Sexualize \Sex"u*al*ize\, v. t. To attribute sex to.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sexualize

1839, from sexual + -ize. Related: Sexualized; sexualizing.

Wiktionary
sexualize

vb. To make sexual.

WordNet
sexualize

v. make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to; "The god was sexualized and married to another god"; "Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender" [syn: sexualise]

Usage examples of "sexualize".

In analyzing the data we obtained through interviews with the murderers, we attempted to link our quantifiable findings with indications from the murderers themselves of aggressive thoughts and fantasies directed toward sexualized death.

Extensive early childhood aggressive and sexualized vengeful preoccupations and sadistic acts either indulged in by reenactment of trauma or repetitive play not only develops their reasoning for murder but also rehearses the methods.

The sexualized fantasies began to merge with the aggressive behaviors, derived, in part, from anger and retaliation from childhood experiences.

And putting all of this together, we concluded that all six murders were committed by the same individual and that his motive was the controlled sexualized rage so evident from the knife wounds.

I knew what I was seeing here was a sexualized manifestation of power from an individual who, under normal circumstances, had none.

If ethics and religion could not be sexualized, but must be regarded as something "higher" from the very beginning, and as their origin from the family and Oedipus complexes seemed undeniable, then there was only one way out.

The photographs would be a turn-on to someone who has a very active and aggressive fantasy life that is devoted to violent, sexualized thought.

At times he thought she used her human qualities as a weapon, banking on his difficulty in separating her sexualized appearance from her biomech nature.

Some men and lesbians see it as a turn-on or a mission, as if by sexualizing our relationship they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day.