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She says: "I can't possibly desexualize what happened to me.

"Rather than desexualize and subsequently dehumanize her female characters, Carter creates women who are sexual even when their desires are seemingly undesirable from feminist perspectives."

And she added, "It was clear he was with his best friend," which on the surface is matter-of-fact, yet manages to desexualize Ms. Aniston.

Similarly, she rejected offers to pose nude for men's magazines because that would "further the misinterpretation of what I do in my work," her attempt to desexualize the female body.

Diller's denigration of her looks was a calculated strategy to desexualize herself, making it possible for her to survive on the male-dominated, and often openly misogynistic, 1950's comedy circuit.

"Men felt very comfortable when they cut off women's hair," Ms. Wiethaus said, explaining that it was an exercise of male power to desexualize, ostracize, punish or strip women of their identity.

In recent years, frantic efforts to desexualize the workplace may have had the unintended effect of forestalling matrimony for singles who spend so much time on the job they can't possibly meet people anywhere else.

It is seen as a way to avoid harassment and unwanted sexual advances in public and works to desexualize women in the public sphere in order to instead allow them to enjoy equal rights of complete legal, economic, and political status.

Here, of course, came the inevitable rejoinder, in the form of a bold hypothesis, as, for example, that the civilization might reproduce asexually, which perforce would desexualize its "symbolic lexicon" and thereby in advance doom to failure any attempt at psychoanalytic penetration.

This conjured up an image of Hillary as Cate Blanchett in the movie "Elizabeth," when the vibrant young woman, feeling she must desexualize herself to rule, chops off her long hair, covers her skin with white pancake makeup and assumes the grim visage of the Virgin Queen.

Bisect him, desex him.

Only the finest type of women could approach within friendship distance of Tesla, and such individuals were idealized by him without the least diffculty; he could desex them mentally so that the vector or emotional attraction was eliminated.