They had to dress like men, essentially, to desexualize themselves.
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I feel like it's extremely dangerous territory to desexualize any human being.
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Several told me stories of being advised to desexualize themselves, or of choosing to do so.
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Permit Victoria's Secret, but desexualize the mannequins and make sure the lingerie is in muted shades of pastel.
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Society tends to desexualize disability, but we're more at-risk when it comes to sexual violence and being in abusive relationships.
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It seems that Westworld is trying not so much to desensitize nudity, but to desexualize it (the glaring exception being Bart's scene).
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Human lactation may seem like an odd thing to fetishize, especially as cultures often desexualize breasts when they're being used for feeding infants.
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The whole point of the film is to desexualize stripping: to show it as a job, its practitioners as hard-working performers and their clients as looking for escape.
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In this series, the idea is not so much to try to desexualize the body, but rather to render its function, and to show the beauty and poetry inherent in that.
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In biblical art, Joseph is often depicted as elderly and Mary as maidenly, but the purpose is to desexualize their relationship, Martin said, not to normalize liaisons between older men and younger women.
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It is representative of society's tendency to desexualize disabled people—to see them as weak or pitiable and therefore infantile and impotent, objects of sympathy and care but never of sexual interest or agency.
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While many have rejected these less-than-enticing detours as sloppy writing, I see them as a byproduct of authentic storytelling — the realities of chasing sexual satisfaction in a world filled with obstacles designed to desexualize you.
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" This approach, the group says on the site, "fosters an inclusive, L.G.B.T.-friendly environment; helps desexualize dance by reinforcing the idea that anyone can dance with anyone" and "doubles the number of people you can dance with.
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A year later, she was also arrested for taking her burqa off inside the Hagia Sophia mosque and was also naked. Papen's goal is to desexualize the body.
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Carter explores feminism throughout the novel. Despite the fact that all of her female characters are victimised, they do not lose their sexual desire. "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." This "undesirable desire" portrays her female character as strong and unbreakable, supporting her feminist views.
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In Francoist Spain, the female body was stripped of its physicality and made into a desexualized object. They existed only for utilitarian reasons only. They were things for use by the state to discover female moral and criminal transgressions. Despite Francoist invocations to desexualize women and transform them exclusively into mother figures, society still had idealized feminine forms that were often most visible in films of the era.
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It was only after the death of Franco in 1975 that women in Spain were finally allowed to define their own sexuality. Understanding Francoist imposed definitions of female sexuality is critical to understanding modern Spanish female sexuality, especially as it relates to macho behavior and women's expected responses to it. Female bodies were stripped of their physicality and the regime did everything in their power to desexualize them. They existed for reproductive purposes.
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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. This modesty was not only demonstrated by their chosen way of dress but also by their serious demeanor which worked to show their dedication to modesty and Islamic beliefs. Taekwondo medalists from Spain, Britain, Iran and Egypt at Rio Olympics, 2016 Controversy erupted over the practice. Many people, both men and women from backgrounds of both Islamic and non-Islamic faith questioned the hijab and what it stood for in terms of women and their rights.
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