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pornotroping

pornotroping noun: 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. Also the present participle and gerund of pornotrope.

Noun

pornotroping (uncountable)

  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.

Also used as

pornotroping is also the present participle and gerund of pornotrope.

Origin of pornotroping

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

Questions about pornotroping

What does pornotroping mean?
Pornotroping means 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.
What part of speech is pornotroping?
Pornotroping is a noun.

Words near pornotroping in the dictionary

  1. pornotopias
  2. pornotopic
  3. pornotrope
  4. pornotroped
  5. pornotropes
  6. pornotroping
  7. pornoviolence
  8. porns
  9. pornscape
  10. pornscapes
  11. pornsick

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