Meaning of lezploitation | Babel Free

Definitions

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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Examples

“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?”

“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 […]”

“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.”

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