sexualization

[ sek-shoo-uh-lahy-zey-shuhn, or, especially British, seks-yoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of endowing with sexual characteristics, or of excessively emphasizing those characteristics:
In the real world, the sexualization of girls isn't confined to beauty pageants.
Parents and other concerned adults have begun grassroots campaigns to counteract sexualization in advertising.

But America the Beautiful III: The Sexualization of Our Youth is by far the most personal of my documentary films.

The double standard of sexualization is hypocritical at best and ineffectively vindictive at worse.

The manufacturing and sexualization of young starlets is a particularly obvious example of this unavoidable reality.

To some degree, the sexualization of young girls is mainstream in Japan.

The combination of emotional abuse and overt sexualization resulted in an attachment disorder.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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