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sexualization

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

noun

  1. 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.



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Books like "Pride Puppy" prevent the premature sexualization of kids, by answering questions about queer identity in age-appropriate ways.

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Kinkade’s enormous 1990s-era success, which saw his work reproduced on everything from collectible plates to La-Z-Boy loungers, dovetailed with the period’s culture war against the sexualization of art.

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“I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children,” Vance tweeted in August 2022.

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In the past, she has detailed the unwanted sexualization she faced as a child and now in her new memoir, "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman," she dives further into other violations that have happened to her, revealing that in her 40s, a doctor performed unwanted vaginal rejuvenation surgery on her.

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The introduction to Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation’s proposed plans for the incoming Trump administration — equates “the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children” with pornography.

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ˌˈٲsexualize