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Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pornotroping
Today it means: 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. Full definition →