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desexualize

desexualize \desexualize\ v. i. & t. to direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.

2. same as desex.

Syn: sterilize, desex, unsex, fix, make infertile.

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desexualize

vb. (context transitive English) To divest of sexual attributes; to make conceptually asexual.

WordNet
desexualize
  1. v. direct one's libidinous urges into another direction [syn: desexualise]

  2. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualise, fix]

Usage examples of "desexualize".

And now he wasn't going to get to hear Hector's fascinating religious theories that had sent her leafing curiously through these queer pages: of how the Bible was most likely a literary con job that employed words as vestments to desexualize, to denature, to disremember the origins of Christianity, the origins of all theological belief.

Also, because Raymond was a boy, Tenney might not have seen the killing as a sex crime, felt no need to desexualize it.

Here, of course, came the inevitable rejoinder, in the form of a bold hypothesis, as, for example, that the civilization might reproduce asexually, which perforce would desexualize its "symbolic lexicon" and thereby in advance doom to failure any attempt at psychoanalytic penetration.

Women are organized in desexualized murder patrolsequipped with leather boots, whips and the other usual sado-masochistic paraphernalia which carry out euthanasia by request.