asexualizationn.
/ˌeɪsɛkʃʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌeɪsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌeɪsɛkʃᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌeɪsɛkʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌeɪˌsɛkʃ(əw)ələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Chiefly U.S. The action or process of making a person (or animal) sterile or sexually impotent, esp. by surgical removal of the testes or ovaries. Now historical.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > rendering
asexualization1888
desexualization1889
radiosterilization1954
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration
libbing1396
geldinga1398
castrationc1420
eviration1603
eunuchism1620
emasculation1623
evirating1657
mutilation1728
orchotomy1753
eunuchry1864
orchidectomy1870
asexualization1888
orchidotomy1892
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.
2. The action or process of making something or someone less sexual or erotic in character, associations, or appeal; = desexualization n. 3.
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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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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