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sexploitational en · ADJ

Etymology

From sexploitation + -al.

Meanings

1. Featuring or pertaining to sexploitation.
   • But this photo does not really represent the sexploitational posing of the beautiful woman as tease: this is the pose of a self-assertive woman wearing the semiotic signs of masculinity atop her nude body – a tie, low-slung jeans. 2002, Linda Hutcheon, The politics of postmodernism, page 155:
   • Oddly enough, though, they rarely object to, and often perpetrate, that semi-pornographic variety of sexploitational photographs used to arouse prurient interest for the purpose of merchandising a variety of products[…] 1969, Popular Photography, volume 65:

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