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I’m not sure it’s about sexualizing women and their names. Maybe there’s a little of that, but there’s more to it. I think if you were doing free word association with a lot of people, many if not most would respond with something sexual if you gave them “Desire”. Maybe that’s a cultural thing, but there’s just so much sexual context built into that word. And if it were just a name with the meaning being “desire”, it wouldn’t be so bad, but this is literally just the word, sitting out there in the open. My Nana’s neighbours named their dog “Dildo”. I don’t think I was sexualizing dogs when I shuddered looking at that name written on the doghouse.