This is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe the power imbalance between genders that results in one gender (usually the male gender) having more power and privilege than the other. For example, "The study on gender roles in the workplace revealed a deeply entrenched system of sexual oppression, where women were largely denied any real power or authority."
But unless the church redefines its policies regarding celibacy, simply allowing women to become priests will not correct the human tendency to act out in a sexually oppressive manner, for sexual repression often leads to sexual oppression.
Concurrently, the civil rights and gay rights movements and changing attitudes toward sexuality created openings for a more-visible and defiant attack on sexual oppression.
"But this kind of sexual oppression?
Third, because Wilde's trials point to a certain connection between literary censorship and sexual oppression.
Nafissatou Diallo became a symbol of rich white male sexual oppression and violence.
It has become a potent symbol of brutality, fear and sexual oppression.
While her deeply religious upbringing overbeared her in more extreme ways, the society around her contained subtle, but nonetheless very real, sexual oppressions as well.
Themes explored in feminist theory include discrimination, stereotyping, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, and patriarchy.
Their rigid class distinctions, false religious piety, sexual aggression, oppression of children, spouses, and siblings all reveal themselves to derive from the most primitive and idiotic impulses.
It explores the political implications of erotophobia as it affects oppressed groups, the role of sexual shame in oppression based on sexuality and gender, and medical constructions of the sexuality of people with disabilities and others.
She became an icon for women, in India and elsewhere, struggling to liberate themselves from sexual and domestic oppression.
