hypersexualize

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hypersexualize (third-person singular simple present hypersexualizes, present participle hypersexualizing, simple past and past participle hypersexualized)

To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of
- 2009 January 18, Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott, “How the Movies Made a President”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Yet even as he stood as a not-so-benign emblem of black power, erotic and otherwise, the hypersexualized black male also became fodder for white exploitation.
- 2023 July 19, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:
  […] Gerwig was influenced by directors such as Max Ophüls and Jacques Tati, as if that confers greater legitimacy on a film using IP (intellectual property) to make money for a toy company that sells vacuous, hypersexualised dolls.

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