lezploitation

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Etymology

From lez (“lesbian”) +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

lezploitation (uncountable)

  1. The exploitation of women in same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in the media, especially for the purpose of titillating heterosexual males.
    • 2010 March 21, Andrew Eaton, “Andrew Eaton: What's all the fuss about acting gay?”, in The Scotsman:
      Is Lady Gaga scoring a victory for gay visibility by featuring butch lesbians in a pop video? Or is this "lezploitation", playing up to heterosexual fantasies about gay women?
    • 2010 August 28, Kate Mossman, “Katy Perry: Teenage Dream”, in The Times:
      Her big hit, I Kissed a Girl, was a piece of marketing genius: every bloke's fantasy, delivered by a blatantly heterosexual female. It attracted charges of "lezploitation" from the gay community […]
    • 2015 March 4, Eric D. Snider, “Sex and Butterflies”, in The Portland Mercury:
      These ladies do indeed have sex, with each other, but don't mistake writer/director Peter Strickland's surreal, mischievous love story for mere lezploitation.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lezploitation.

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