Meaning of pornotrope | Babel Free

Definitions

To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.

Examples

“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.”

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