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Lelio approaches the material matter-of-factly, refusing to either sensationalize or desexualize the relationship; it’s a rare mainstream portrayal of same-sex attraction that considers both emotional and physical attraction on equal footing.

As the play nears its end, she makes a U-turn away from her own desire, abruptly keen instead on inhabiting one of the most selfless and desexualized of female roles.

Last January, he dedicated a segment on his Fox News program to bemoaning how the candy characters had been desexualized in a then-new campaign by Mars Wrigley.

In early 2020, monotony and isolation left many people feeling both destabilized and desexualized.

The image of the mother was drilled into my head by the desexualized images I witnessed growing up, particularly in pop culture.