hypersexualizationn.
/ˌhʌɪpəˌsɛkʃʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhʌɪpəˌsɛkʃᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhʌɪpəˌsɛkʃl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌhʌɪpəˌsɛkʃjʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌhaɪpərˌsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌhaɪpərˌsɛkʃ(əw)ələˈzeɪʃən/ The action or process of making a person or thing pervasively, excessively, or inappropriately sexual; permeation with intense sexual or erotic character, associations, or appeal; an instance of this.
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1954 F. G. Black in Compar. Lit. 6 189 Current amoral attitudes and the hyper-sexualization of fiction will, from the view of a century hence, seem as far afield as the prudery charged to a century ago.
1996 Christian Cent. (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. 104 I'm very concerned, for example, about the hypersexualization of society—the hyperfocus on sexuality.
2007 German Politics & Society 25 62 The desirability of the mulatta Gladys resonates somewhat uncomfortably with misogynistic hypersexualizations of ‘mixed race’ women.
2021 Pitt News (Nexis) 8 Mar. 1 We see the corporate hypersexualization of women in the music industry almost constantly, from men singing about women in a sexual manner to the barely clothed women on album covers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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