sexploitational

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sexploitation +‎ -al

Adjective[edit]

sexploitational (comparative more sexploitational, superlative most sexploitational)

  1. Featuring or pertaining to sexploitation.
    • 1969, Popular Photography, volume 65:
      Oddly enough, though, they rarely object to, and often perpetrate, that semi-pornographic variety of sexploitational photographs used to arouse prurient interest for the purpose of merchandising a variety of products []
    • 2002, Linda Hutcheon, The politics of postmodernism, page 155:
      But this photo does not really represent the sexploitational posing of the beautiful woman as tease: this is the pose of a self-assertive woman wearing the semiotic signs of masculinity atop her nude body – a tie, low-slung jeans.