sex object

sex object

One who is valued or regarded as a source of sexual pleasure. She was tired of being treated like a sex object, so she began dressing more conservatively and demanded more respect from the men within her social circle.
See also: object, sex
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be (on) the wrong side of (an age)
  • be on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc.
  • appear to
  • (one) can whistle for it
  • a change of heart
  • a mystery to (one)
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • a turn of phrase
  • able to do
  • able to do it
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(Whether Trump's boasts about assaulting women are or are not actually common among men in locker rooms has been a topic of heated debate--as if words were the primary concern.) But Sex Object relies on this accretive technique indiscriminately, conflating every leer, every mutually disrespectful relationship, every overture from a married man into one long parade of sexist slings and arrows.
Sex object delves into the ways in which public feminists are expected to be strong all of the time Valenti does us a favour by aiming to end sexual objectification and to shatter pedestals.
Parks's stage representation in Venus creates the illusion that Baartman was a free and liberated woman who enjoyed her status as a sex object and/or was in complete denial of such status altogether.
Imagine being projected into the bed of your fantasy sex object with a tactile reality that is now unfathomable.
From her birth till her death, she is treated as a sex object.
But quizzed over texts she sent friends complaining of feeling "like a sex object", Walters agreed his "sex drive was higher" than his wife's.
For most women, sex is rooted in their emotions and you need to build her confidence again so she doesn't just feel like a sex object. Perhaps the compromise is that you use sex toys sometimes and the rest of the time you don't.
It obviously worries you that you're being seen as a stereotypical big-boobed blonde sex object but I don't think your looks have anything to do with why you haven't met the right person.
"A man becoming a sex object opened a whole new door," Ford says.
But she made advances to the boy before sneaking into his bedroom and using him as a "sex object" by having intercourse and performing a sex act.
JADE Goody's widower Jack Tweed treated a teenage student as a "sex object", a court heard yesterday.
Maria should take it as a compliment that Carl loves her for herself rather than as a sex object. But they should talk about things they BOTH find a turn on if they want to add variety to their love life.
But how long do you think it will be before she starts bleating about being a sex object?
A judge told the man that he treated the victim, now aged 24, as a sex object and his offending constituted a gross breach of trust by a father towards his daughter.
Valentina said of the attack: "I have spent a lot of time around the primates but I'd never imagined that a lonely chimpanzee could see me as a sex object."