Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda, a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies' feminism.

This ethos contributed to the desexualisation of lesbianism and also ignored a whole range of inequalities which erode some lesbians' choice of lovers.

Legislators in some countries are also reluctant to go too far toward what they see as the desexualization of the United States.

Philip Hollobone won't stand for this blatant desexualization.

He is blunt and salty, to dispel what he calls a misperception that "somehow or other when you come to Christ, a desexualization takes place."

Both Mr. Barthes and Mr. Morris comment on the desexualization inherent in the act of stripping.

Professor Hamamoto created a 50-minute pornographic film named Skin on Skin, which starred Asian American actors and actresses and addresses the desexualization of Asian American males.

Symonds struggled against the desexualization of "Platonic love," and sought to debunk the association of effeminacy with homosexuality by advocating a Spartan-inspired view of male love as contributing to military and political bonds.

Darrell Hamamoto is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis who is best known for his views on the desexualization of Asian American males in the media.

Disability rights advocates, including Not Dead Yet and Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA), called the treatment "invasive medical experimentation", "mutilation", "desexualization", and a violation of Ashley's human rights.