sexualizev.

1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 462/2 The French [language]..has no resources for elevating its diction... The single misfortune of having no neuter gender,..by sexualising in all cases, neutralises the effect.

1856 H. K. Hunt Glances & Glimpses vii. 101 Parents, in the development of your children, it is for you to beautify all uses, not to sexualize them; giving to a feminine boy, manhood; and to a masculine girl, womanhood.

1900 Philos. Rev. 9 544 A remarkable tendency to personify and sexualize, not only numerals, and letters of the alphabet, but everything else as well, follows a brief statement of the sex and gender problem of philology.

1986 Tulsa Stud. Women's Lit. 5 260 Showalter..even more explicitly sexualizes the difference between theory and practice.

1911 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 22 411 Imperative brooding..[is] sufficiently powerful to sexualize the thinking, and to color the intellectual operation with pleasure and anxiety of the individual's own sexual processes.

1958 A. Kaplan Amer. Ethics & Public Policy (1966) 58 The advertiser sexualizes every commodity (except breakfast cereals).

1976 Soc. Probl. 23 460 The mother, then, sexualizes her relationship to her son early, so that ‘oedipal’ issues of sexual attraction..become fused with ‘preoedipal’ issues of primary love and oneness.

1995 P. Roth Sabbath's Theater 218 I think I just sexualize every interaction I have with people.

2001 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. ii. 29/5 They are sexualizing children, homoeroticizing straight men and, in general, turning sexuality on its head.