lesploitation

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A form of lezploitation — The exploitation of women in same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in the media, especially for the purpose of titillating heterosexual males.

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Meanings

nounlesploitation (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of lezploitation.

    Kissed A Girl chart topper Perry is tipped to continue her own bout of controversy using her ‘lesploitation pop’ and image to keep in the limelight.

    2008 December 23, Andrei Harmsworth, “Rihanna and Katy hottest for ’09?”, in Metro, UK
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    To highlight their cluelessness, lesploitation was becoming the single man's obsession, and people like Jillian thought that two gay men would find a three-way with a straight woman as entertaining.

    2008, Patrick Mahoney, Tibet: Lamplight Unto a Darkened World: The American Delusion, a Parody of Life, Booksurge.com, →ISBN, page 831

    Thus “Telephone” inverts the power dynamics of media reception, where the empowering or queer reading of such products as lesploitation films are relegated as “readings against the grain” or appropriations.

    2011, Katrin Horn, “Follow the Glitter Way: Lady Gag and Camp”, in Richard J. Gray II, editor, The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 98
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lesploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesploitation

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“lesploitation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesploitation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lesploitation,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lesploitation.

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