lezploitation

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noun

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

nounlezploitation (uncountable)

alternative lesploitation · alternative lezsploitation

  1. uncountableThe exploitation of women in same-sex relationships and female-female sexual expression in the media, especially for the purpose of titillating heterosexual males.

    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.

    2015 March 4, Eric D. Snider, “Sex and Butterflies”, in The Portland Mercury
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    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 March 21, Andrew Eaton, “Andrew Eaton: What's all the fuss about acting gay?”, in The Scotsman

    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 […]

    2010 August 28, Kate Mossman, “Katy Perry: Teenage Dream”, in The Times

Origin

From lez (“lesbian”) + -sploitation.

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APA

lezploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lezploitation

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

Chicago

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

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