Sexualize vs Objectify - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between sexualize and objectify

is that sexualize is to make sexual while objectify is to make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.

(sexualiz)

To make sexual.

Children's beauty pageants sexualize childhood.

(en-verb)

to make something (such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses

* 1906 : Jack London, White Fang

It was the unknown, objectified at last, in concrete flesh and blood, bending over him and reaching down to seize hold of him.

to treat as something objectively real

* 1921 : Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology.

to treat as a mere object and deny the dignity of

* 1999 : Dawson's Creek (TV, episode 3.04)

The entire notion of cheerleading is just a sexist attempt to try to objectify the female body.

* reify, thingify

* objectification