sex object

noun

1. a person viewed as being of little interest or merit beyond the potential for providing sexual gratification.

sex object

noun

1. a person viewed or treated as a means of obtaining sexual gratification

Word History and Origins

Origin of sex object¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The fluffy dresses and elaborate dances are about romanticizing a dehumanizing view of women, in which they are male property, whose only value is in being a sex object.

From Salon

They mocked the victims with racial slurs and assaulted them with sex objects.

From Seattle Times

He is telling these girls that their accomplishments are a joke to him and that the only value he sees in them is as sex objects.

From Salon

Judge Robert Trevor-Jones told Hardy he had treated his victim "like a puppet or sex object" and had held a spell over them.

From BBC

By virtue of their careers on-stage and on-screen, Anderson and Spears quickly ceased to be people in the mind of the public; they were commodities and regarded as sex objects.

From Salon