sex object

American  

noun

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

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sex object British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of sex object

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In other scenes as other people, she flops about with the weird violence of a marionette playacting a vixen only to become that sex object after a blood sacrifice.

From Salon

This narrative carried over and persisted in American popular culture, in numerous films and musicals, such as “Miss Saigon” portraying Asian women as sex objects, Davé said.

From Washington Times

How did Mia go from being a demur Native American woman on a lakeshore to a sex object tied to the trafficking of native women?

From Washington Post

The YouTube ad presented the firm's products in an "overly-sexualised way" and depicted women as sex objects, the Advertising Standards Authority said.

From BBC

The movement is bigger than breasts: it’s about treating female bodies like human bodies, not sex objects.

From The Guardian