pornotroping

Meanings

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.

Verb

Present participle of pornotrope

Origin

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

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