pornotrope
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
noun
A stereotype that is the result of pornotroping.
Example Sentences
- "If minstrelsy had grotesquely pornotroped the sexual availability of "light-skinned" women and "mulatta coquettes" by burdening them with operating as the objects of erotic pursuit, then Menken's breeches (counter)act in Three Fast Women must be considered as another paradoxical parody on her part."
- "In an outrageous skit in which he pornotropes Aunt Jemima, he begins innocently enough by relating the story of his mother confiscating his porn magazines when he was a teenager."
- "They also inaugurate an immediate epoch in midcentury America's mass culture during which similar, and similarly pornotroped, visions of black masculinity would take center stage."
- "Can raw language, lyrics, and sexual expression be served up as counter-discourses to national sexuality, or do they merely feed into preexisting pornotropes of national and transnational racial and sexual subordination?"
- "Baker seemed to fit the “pornotrope” of the wild, polymorphously perverse child: the goofy grin, the elastic legs, and the maddening derriere wiggling uncontrollably in a provocative dance, topless, in a banana skirt."
- "These dynamics create a new “pornotrope” that distinguishes the colonial nostalgia production from the banlieusard production: the difficult Arab boy, far removed from the always-available Arab boy of yesteryear."
Etymology
Back-formation from pornotroping.