objectification
Poems about being reduced to a body, a role, or a story that erases the person underneath.
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He later reduced the relationship to sex, but the songs, promises, and future he once wrote around her tell a much messier truth.
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A cruel sentence reduces an entire relationship to sex, forcing a woman to separate being wanted from being loved.
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A private body is turned into public spectacle, exposing not the woman in the photograph but the entitlement of the person who shared it.
