<p>There are plenty of other adjectives -- <em>beautiful</em>, <em>stunning</em>, <em>magnetic</em>, <em>delightful</em>, <em>elegant</em>, etc -- which are far less cheap and <em>lazy</em> than the word "sexy", and literally don't have the word "sex" in them.</p>
<p>At the very best, "sexy" is just cheap and lazy language.  We can do better here to avoid sexualizing mundane things like software, while also choosing more apt descriptors.</p>

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