desex
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desex
(dē-sĕks′)tr.v. de·sexed,
de·sexing,
de·sexes To remove part or all of the reproductive organs of; neuter.
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DESEX was introduced in June 1991 to improve customer service support within the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) emergency supply operations centers by automatically processing routine customer inquiries.
In September 2002, the DESEX Program Management Office announced plans for Virtual DESEX.
Although perhaps disappointing to present-day pro-sex feminists and queers, the
desexed female body within these texts is strategically empowering and historically comprehensible.
By seeing the serpent as a symbol of the complementary duality of the spirit and flesh, the divine sexual aspect of the
desexed mother Tonantzin-Guadalupe, one is potentially liberated from judging women and oneself based on a spirit versus flesh oppositional binary.
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