desexualizedadj.

1874 19th Ann. Rep. Board of Directors St Louis (Missouri) Public Schools 1873 106 I had noticed that the atmosphere of ‘mixed’ schools was de-sexualized, where that of separate schools seemed to have a tendency to develope [sic] sexual tension.

1894 Idler Sept. 195 The most highly cultured, mentally most richly endowed women I have known—not desexualised.

1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 50 They regard all human energy as sexual.., though Jung holds that it may become de-sexualised by turning from a sexual aim to non-sexual surrogate.

1932 Trans. Japanese Pathol. Soc 22 225 Having recognized certain changes brought about by castration, I tried to find out if the desexualized animal with follicular hormone administered, would not recover the condition that obtained before the operation.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 90/2 Later adolescent pictures show a normal interest in sex, but both boys and girls become fashion-plate types, essentially desexualized.

1999 F. J. Barrett in A. Moutuori & R. E. Purser Social Creativity I. v. 148 Perhaps a new desexualized language will emerge to navigate relations between men and women at the Academy.

2006 V. Gatrell City of Laughter (2007) x. 301 The stereotype of the desexualized Victorian woman was already being prefigured in the medical advice given to her forebears.