Hyposexualization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Playing down or understating somebody's sexuality. uncountable

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

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

Etymology

From hypo- + sexualization.

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