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Definition of Desexualization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desexualization
deserving deserving(p) deservingly deservingness deservings desetope desferrioxamine desferrioxamine mesylate desflurane deshabille | deshabilles deshelving deshi deshielding deshieldings deshopper |
Literary usage of Desexualization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They afford also, as in the history of the race, opportunities of desexualization
and diversion of the primeval energy or libido from the strictly sexual ..."
2. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1921)
"Ever since Governor Marshall raised the question as to the constitutionality of
the present law authorizing the desexualization of inmates of certain ..."
3. The Problem of the Nervous Child by Elida Evans (1920)
"what might be called a desexualization of the individual which, as I have tried
to show, may be either physical or mental, the mental being caused generally ..."
4. The Social Evolution of Religion by George Willis Cooke (1920)
"... so far as to propose the elimination of those not capable of producing a sound
offspring, either by the process of death or that of desexualization. ..."
5. Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions by Ghent Urban Studies Team (2002)
"r^ « ;J •az 1 The desexualization of Times Square: A History 11 111 1 ° O '- The
transformation of Times Square in New York City has been a great ..."
6. The Journal of Tuberculosis by A H McQuilkin (1899)
"The Possible Future Preventive Measure of desexualization for Certain Diseases
and Degenerate Crimes. 27. (Also a side issue). The Evil Habits of Youth in ..."
7. Transactions of the Colorado State Medical Society by Colorado State Medical Society (1900)
"Third—For the limited and legalized use of desexualization with the purpose to
ameliorate and limit degenerative diseases of advanced types, ..."
8. Christianity and Sex Problems by Hugh Northcote (1906)
"... sedative results may be expected to follow castration or desexualization of
the adult, only at a considerable distance from the operation itself. ..."