Desexualize (Verb)
Meaning 1
Direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
Make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized".
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
Examples
- Health clinics in some regions secretly desexualize people with severe genetic disorders to avoid passing them down.
- The government passed a law to desexualize individuals with mental health disorders in an ill-advised attempt to control the population.
- Forced sterilizations aimed to desexualize and therefore render certain undesired groups genetically extinct.
- Medical professionals often debate whether it's humane to desexualize people with genetically transmissible disabilities to prevent suffering.
- Court cases involving human rights outlined the injustice of laws aimed to desexualize and thus erase minority groups from society.