Dictionary

lezploitation en · NOUN

Etymology

From lez (“lesbian”) + -sploitation.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The exploitation of women in same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in the media, especially for the purpose of titillating heterosexual males.
   • Is Lady Gaga scoring a victory for gay visibility by featuring butch lesbians in a pop video? Or is this "lezploitation", playing up to heterosexual fantasies about gay women? 2010 March 21, Andrew Eaton, “Andrew Eaton: What's all the fuss about acting gay?”, in The Scotsman:
   • Her big hit, I Kissed a Girl, was a piece of marketing genius: every bloke's fantasy, delivered by a blatantly heterosexual female. It attracted charges of "lezploitation" from the gay community […] 2010 August 28, Kate Mossman, “Katy Perry: Teenage Dream”, in The Times:
   • These ladies do indeed have sex, with each other, but don't mistake writer/director Peter Strickland's surreal, mischievous love story for mere lezploitation. 2015 March 4, Eric D. Snider, “Sex and Butterflies”, in The Portland Mercury:

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Hypernyms

gaysploitation