1 Referring to children's friends as girlfriends and boyfriends sexualizes them.

2 Words associated with women are sexualized so that apparently equivalent terms acquire very different meanings.

3 The agency claimed she looked "young and vulnerable," and said the ad was an attempt to "sexualize a model who appeared to be a child.

4 Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender.

5 Sigmund Freud claimed that people sexualize feet because they resemble penises.

6 Content: This thesis attempts to explore the unique features of XiaoHong"s novels from the aspect of gender , and by doing that sexualize them."