asexualizationn.

1888 O. Everts in Med. News 31 Mar. 341/1 (heading) Asexualization as a penalty for crime.

1901 C. Harrington Man. Pract. Hygiene i. 24 Asexualization by spaying or castration produces a fatter, more tender, and better flavored meat.

1936 Eugenical Sterilization (Amer. Neurol. Assoc.) i. 9 The law provides for compulsory asexualization upon discharge of any inmate of a state hospital for the insane or a state home for the feebleminded if afflicted with mental disease which may have been inherited and which is likely to be transmitted to the descendants.

1950 M. Woodside Sterilization in N. Carolina ii. 12 The requirements of a sterilization petition [include]..whether sterilization or asexualization is recommended. The latter procedure, though specifically permitted under the statute, is but rarely made use of and then in exceptional circumstances.

2008 M. A. Largent Breeding Contempt iii. 68 Just as influential as eugenic justifications were claims about the therapeutic effects of asexualization on chronic masturbators and other sexual perverts as well as the fact that the operation would make them easier to manage within state institutions.

1988 M. Saxton in Issues Relating to U.N. Convent. on Elimination Discrim. against Women: Hearing before U.S. Senate Comm. on Foreign Relations (100th Congr., 2nd Sess.) App. 97 Certain aspects of the oppression of disabled women have served to separate disabled women from other women..; notably..the asexualization of disabled women.

2000 G. Becker Elusive Embryo viii. 152 Known donors..are considered acceptable for eggs but not for sperm because of existing cultural ideologies: the same sexualization of sperm and asexualization of eggs that Haimes found in Britain is present in the United States.

2014 Ann. Rev. Crit. Psychol. 11 418 Such considerations indicate the need to break with the process of infantilization and asexualization to which many women with disabilities are subject on a daily basis.