hyposexualization

English

Alternative forms

• hypo-sexualization

Etymology

hypo- +‎ sexualization

Noun

hyposexualization (uncountable)

1. Playing down or understating somebody's sexuality.
   • 2001, Patricia Whelehan, An Anthropological Perspective on Prostitution, page 14:

     The male sociobiological perspective […] perpetuates the hyposexualization of women and the hypersexualization of men.

   • 2015, Pierpaolo Antonello, Heather Webb, Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• hypersexualization