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hyposexualization en · NOUN

Etymology

From hypo- + sexualization.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Playing down or understating somebody's sexuality.
   • The male sociobiological perspective […] perpetuates the hyposexualization of women and the hypersexualization of men. 2001, Patricia Whelehan, An Anthropological Perspective on Prostitution, page 14:
   • Narcissism could be in fact clinically linked to both forms of hyper- and hypo-sexualization, and it is actually sexual “anorexia,” this modern form of mystical asceticism, which Girard finds the most interesting to analyze. 2015, Pierpaolo Antonello, Heather Webb, Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism:

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