Why should that be if the author would rather "desexualize" people?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

They even attempt to desexualize the bikini by calling it a two-piece bathing suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet Turley: Sex, Violence and Identity: Mad Men Season 4 Premier] Reference

The argument that we're not trying to desexualize Lara, we're just trying to make her realistic doesn't hold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposing Lara's... Equanimity?] Reference

But I don't think we should, therefore, desexualize him to only look at his policies in some effort to forward an unracist stance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress, who pointed out that the problem with this situation basically comes down to this: When women dress their men, they tend to unconsciously desexualize them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"juvenilia" performs simultaneously to sexualize and desexualize the narrative of an authorial career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_] Reference

And fat's a great word. it's a honest, frank, DESCRIPTIVE word. most of the other words people use to describe fat people are understatements designed to make people feel better about themselves, are infantile and desexualize the person they're referring to, are completely inaccurate when applied to some fat people not everyone is big boned, for instance, or are medical words that are used as scare tactics by the media and the big diet companies, etc. fat has no other meaning behind it but what it is, a simple description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference