hypersexualizev.
/ˌhʌɪpəˈsɛkʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˌhʌɪpəˈsɛkʃᵿlʌɪz/, /ˌhʌɪpəˈsɛkʃl̩ʌɪz/, /ˌhʌɪpəˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌhaɪpərˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/ transitive. To make (a person or thing) pervasively, excessively, or inappropriately sexual; to imbue or permeate with intense sexual or erotic character, associations, or appeal.
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a1933 H. A. Potamkin in Films (N.Y.) Nov. (1939) 11 The danger..is not that the cinema will hypersexualize the child,..but simply that it will hurry his experience and thereby condense his childhood.
1994 Amer. Lit. Hist. 6 699 Images of black people's bodies in American culture have been either hypersexualized or desexualized to serve the imaginings and purposes of white American men and women.
2013 J. Franks Brit. & Irish Women Writers & Women's Movement ii. 89 This popular trend to hypersexualize our culture.
2021 Albany (N.Y.) Student Press (Nexis) 28 Oct. 1 How is a woman to participate in a society which hypersexualizes, fetishizes, and commodifies their bodies, while still paying homage to our foremothers who fought for our right to wear what we want to?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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