diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsexy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsexy/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index cb22d9f97bc7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsexy/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig
-, glib, gtk2, libxml2, pango
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "libsexy-0.1.11";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://releases.chipx86.com/libsexy/libsexy/libsexy-0.1.11.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "8c4101a8cda5fccbba85ba1a15f46f2cf75deaa8b3c525ce5b135b9e1a8fe49e";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ glib gtk2 libxml2 pango ];
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "A collection of GTK widgets";
-    homepage = https://blog.chipx86.com/tag/libsexy/;
-    license = licenses.lgpl21;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsexy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsexy/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 78e0dae2634c..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/libsexy/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, libsexy, pkgconfig, libxml2, pygtk, pango, glib, python }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "libsexy";
-  version = "0.1.9";
-  format = "other";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://releases.chipx86.com/libsexy/sexy-python/sexy-python-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "05bgcsxwkp63rlr8wg6znd46cfbhrzc5wh70jabsi654pxxjb39d";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig pygtk ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    pygtk libsexy glib pango libxml2
-  ];
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    ln -s $out/${python.sitePackages}/gtk-2.0/* $out/${python.sitePackages}
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Python libsexy bindings";
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 528d6e1430e2..f3abc0a6e24f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   libsysfs = sysfsutils; # added 2018-04-25
   libtidy = html-tidy;  # added 2014-12-21
   libudev = udev; # added 2018-04-25
+  libsexy = throw "libsexy has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's abandoned and no package needed it."; # 2019-12-10
   links = links2; # added 2016-01-31
   linux_rpi0 = linux_rpi1;
   linuxPackages_rpi0 = linuxPackages_rpi1;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1f824cf8b998..25de14fd25e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5846,8 +5846,6 @@ in
 
   pythonIRClib = pythonPackages.pythonIRClib;
 
-  pythonSexy = pythonPackages.libsexy;
-
   pyditz = callPackage ../applications/misc/pyditz {
     pythonPackages = python27Packages;
   };
@@ -16570,8 +16568,6 @@ in
 
   libsass = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsass { };
 
-  libsexy = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsexy { };
-
   libsepol = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/libsepol { };
 
   libsmbios = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/libsmbios { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index afe689167ac5..face76e104bb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2668,10 +2668,6 @@ in {
 
   latexcodec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/latexcodec {};
 
-  libsexy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/libsexy {
-    inherit (pkgs) libsexy pkgconfig;
-  };
-
   libselinux = pipe pkgs.libselinux [
     toPythonModule