pornotrope
pornotrope verb: to transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
Verb
pornotrope (third-person singular simple present pornotropes, present participle pornotroping, simple past and past participle pornotroped)
- To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
- If minstrelsy had grotesquely pornotroped the sexual availability of "light-skinned" women and "mulatta coquettes" by burdening them with operating as the objects of erotic pursuit, then Menken's breeches (counter)act in Three Fast Women must be considered as another paradoxical parody on her part.2006, Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, →ISBN, page 203
- In an outrageous skit in which he pornotropes Aunt Jemima, he begins innocently enough by relating the story of his mother confiscating his porn magazines when he was a teenager.2008, Glenda Carpio, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, →ISBN
Noun
pornotrope (plural pornotropes)
- A stereotype that is the result of pornotroping.
- Can raw language, lyrics, and sexual expression be served up as counter-discourses to national sexuality, or do they merely feed into preexisting pornotropes of national and transnational racial and sexual subordination?2012, Mimi Sheller, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, →ISBN
- Baker seemed to fit the “pornotrope” of the wild, polymorphously perverse child: the goofy grin, the elastic legs, and the maddening derriere wiggling uncontrollably in a provocative dance, topless, in a banana skirt.2012, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, →ISBN, page 41
Forms of pornotrope
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | pornotropes |
| present participle | pornotroping |
| past participle | pornotroped |
| past | pornotroped |
| Noun | |
| plural | pornotropes |
Origin of pornotrope
Back-formation from pornotroping.
Questions about pornotrope
- What does pornotrope mean?
- Pornotrope means to transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
- What part of speech is pornotrope?
- Pornotrope can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of pornotrope?
- The past tense of pornotrope is pornotroped.
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