hyposexualization
nounEtymology From hypo- + sexualization.
1
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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