English Explanatory Dictionary

pornotroping

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of pornotrope

Word forms

pornotroping

Etymology

Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.

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