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- noun The act or process of
hypersexualizing .
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Examples
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"hypersexualization" and his workplace attitudes towards women.
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A reposting of the image at Major Spoilers ignited a lengthy and spirited comments thread devoted to the depictions of the male and female characters, hypersexualization, marketing ( "sex sells") ... and Star Sapphire's "crotch-star."
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I think that these photos clearly promote the hypersexualization and fetishization that sits at the center of our culture.
Mikhail Lyubansky: Race is Sexy. Sex is Racy. Now "Get Lost" 2010
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I think that these photos clearly promote the hypersexualization and fetishization that sits at the center of our culture.
Mikhail Lyubansky: Race is Sexy. Sex is Racy. Now "Get Lost" 2010
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The ads and outfits encourage the sort of hypersexualization of young women that has nothing to do with female pleasure or sensuality and that is portrayed so often in TV, movies, and other media and is ultimately heteronormative.
Just In Case You Didn’t Have Enough Reasons to Avoid Abercrombie & Fitch « Gender Across Borders 2009
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I remember a young lady posting a while back that she found the hypersexualization of Uhura and her inclusion with white men to be too reminiscent of old promiscuous black female stereotype dating back to the wide hipped, larger breasted cartoon characters of the slave days and after in jim crow.
STAR TREK (2009) Steven Barnes 2009
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This seems to be sending an equally unhealthy message about sex as the Lolita-like hypersexualization of teens; that sex is always a bad idea and will not be fulfilling or enjoyable.
'Secret Life of the American Teenager' recap: Teens have sex?!?! | EW.com 2008
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The hypersexualization of "lipstick lesbians" in popular culture is so pervasive that we find straight girls coopting the behavior of same-sex girl-on-girl action, now that it carries with it a certain cache in the heterosexual male world thanks to the mainstreaming of pornography, thus such same-sex desire is not seen as "lesbian desire" but actually as heterosexual spectacle; and 2.
Is Women's Studies Being Made Irrelevant? Anxious Black Woman 2008
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Having already spent a whole month of Black Herstory and recently teaching on the subject of black women's images, I immediately recognize the hypersexualization implied in the "already grown" black woman-child plus the racist scientific arguments about our "underdeveloped" brains.
What's Wrong With This Picture? Anxious Black Woman 2008
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Like an iron grip in a velvet glove, the hypersexualization of girls in the media holds actual girls hostage under the pretense of entertaining and informing them.
Miley Cyrus Hoopla Melissa Silverstein 2008
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