sex object

English

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Noun

sex object (plural sex objects)

1. A person seen primarily or solely as sexually attractive.
   • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The National Organization for Women, denouncing the campaign for what it considered to be the depiction of women as sex objects, demonstrated outside F. William Free & Company, confronting Mr. Free with placards reading, “I'm Bill — Fire Me.”

Translations

person seen only as sexually attractive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no exact equivalent exists) 性交對象／性交对象 (xìngjiāo duìxiàng), 性對象／性对象 (xìngduìxiàng)

• Finnish: seksiobjekti (fi), sukupuoliobjekti
• French: objet sexuel (fr) m
• Galician: obxecto sexual m
• Polish: obiekt seksualny m
• Swedish: sexobjekt n

Further reading

• “sex object”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “sex object”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “sex object” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.