sexualize

1. (transitive) To render sexual, or apply sex appeal to (a person, thing, or concept).Examples: "Children’s beauty pageants sexualize childhood."; "Your advertising doesn't need to sexualize goods and services to sell them to me, and in fact I might make a point of not buying your product if you pester me with sexualization."; "I have charted a change from a Victorian culture that spiritualized love to modern efforts to sexualize love. The latter contributed, more-over, to the development of a culture of eroticism."Antonyms: desexualizetransitive

2. (biology, transitive) To distinguish as belonging to separate sexes.Synonyms: sex#Verbtransitive