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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: feminism, government, human-sciences, ideology, philosophy, politics, sciences
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verb
present participle and gerund of pornotrope
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.
