Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Exploitative use of overt sexual themes or explicit sexual material in movies and the media.

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  • noun Sexual exploitation in the media (especially film).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Blend of sex and exploitation.]

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Blend of sex and exploitation (circa 1942)

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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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2009

  • 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).

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2009

  • 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.

    Cinema of sin: London's old Scala picturehouse 2011

  • 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.

    Mothering in Real Time Jane Hammons 2011

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