Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Exploitative use of explicit sexual material in movies and the media.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material
Etymologies
- Blend of sex and exploitation (circa 1942) (Wiktionary)
- Blend of sex and exploitation. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Preliminary research suggests that human trafficking in the sex industry in Cape Town might not be as prevalent as first thought, a seminar on trafficking and "sexploitation" heard on Tuesday.”
“Dracula (1931) to Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song (1971) and other "sexploitation" films of the 1950s to Debbie Does Dallas (1978), Deep Throat (1972) and the best of "porn chic" to contemporary celebrity "home-made" porn such as One Night in Paris (2004).”
“Action: Sex and the Moving Image surveys the history of sex and the moving image over more than 150 years, featuring everything from the subtle sexual metaphors in films such as Dracula (1931) to Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song (1971) and other "sexploitation" films of the 1950s to Debbie Does Dallas (1978), Deep Throat (1972) and the best of "porn chic" to contemporary celebrity "home-made" porn such as One Night in Paris (2004).”
“The cinema's biggest hits were underground classics such as Thundercrack and Cafe Flesh; John Waters's 70s trash trilogy Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living; and the work of sexploitation king Russ Meyer.”
The Guardian: Cinema of sin: London's old Scala picturehouse
“I was persuaded by my sons 15 and 16 at the time to take them to see Frank Miller's R-Rated Sin City, which I watched, eyes averted as I slunk further and further down into my chair, both in discomfort at watching sexploitation, dismemberment and torture with my children and embarrassment in having exercised such poor judgment.”
“Yet as Mr. Pattinson made the rounds in New York this week to promote his new, nonvampire movie, "Remember Me," the spectacle of his sexploitation — how else to put it? — was grotesque.”
“What makes the show seedy is its excessive sexploitation of Tila and her suitors.”
The Huffington Post: Kiesha Ramey-Presner: A Double Shot at...No.
“Others have included the 1959 classic documentary Come Back, Africa, a fierce indictment of apartheid filmed covertly in Johannesburg and Sophiatown, and Snake Dancer, which has been described as a 70s sexploitation B movie about a scandalous stripper set in a Hillbrow oddly devoid of people of colour.”
The Guardian: Sollywood – South Africa's fledgling film genre
“He should do a kung fu sexploitation film called Faster Pussycat!”
“In fact, the film is the first in a planned franchise of “sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher” B-movies inspired by the campy slasher hits from the decade of shoulder pads and big bad hair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sexploitation’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
bananosecond, fruitylicious, appled, kiwiclock, boomorange, damsonic, pearforate, graspberry, squince, datelier, caroberate, plumpire and 143 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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sex phases/words
how sex is used
devout sex, the, fair (also gentle..., fairer (also gent..., have sex (with), to, organ of sex, second sex, the, sex-abolitionist, sex-abusing, sex act, sex activity, sex addict, sex addiction and 233 more...
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The Sploitations
Niche exploitation film subgenres that end in -sploitation.
(OK, some of them just end in -ploitation.)Britsploitation, Brucesploitation, Jewsploitation, Mexploitation, artsploitation, blaxploitation, bikesploitation, carsploitation, dykesploitation, hixploitation, nunsploitation, rapsploitation and 33 more...
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Words With Sex
Words that begin, end or have sex in them.
autosexing, bissextile day, desexualizing, intersexual, monosexual, pansexual, psychosexuality, sexagenarian, sexlessness, sexologies, sextant, sextette and 37 more...
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style
film / art visual styles, genres. technical or otherwise.
(art, style, genre, storytelling, visual, communication, technique, randomness)neo-noir, tilt-shift, grindhouse, cubist, musical, dark satire, slapstick, extreme, absurdism, dadaism, post-modernism, pop and 18 more...
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Portmanteaus
Words created by combining 2 (or sometimes more)
smog, spork, brunch, camcorder, chortle, cremains, cyborg, fantabulous, ginormous, frenemy, ebonics, gerrymander and 34 more...
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The Form and Function of Genres
wuxia, dramedy, bildungsroman, blaxploitation, sexploitation, tokusatsu, epic, cyberpunk, mystery, romance, fantasy, drama and 21 more...
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