sexploitation
noun
sex·ploi·ta·tion
ˌseks-ˌplȯi-ˈtā-shən 
: the exploitation of sex in the media and especially in film
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One of Wishman’s most Sapphic films is this gritty black-and-white sexploitation shocker about assassins who weasel their way into an apartment shared by two lesbians in order to kill a foreign dignitary.
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Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
From Las Vegas to Atlantic City, hotel-casinos have clear and deep links to the sexploitation economy.
—Sonia Ossorio, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
An ode to 1980s sexploitation and horror, MaXXXine completes Ti West’s trilogy starring Mia Goth.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Kitten Natividad, who brought audacity and ample physical attributes to some of the final films of Russ Meyer, whose over-the-top sexploitation movies acquired a certain cachet in some quarters and influenced John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and other directors, died on Sept. 24 in Los Angeles.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
Is this posthumous sexploitation?
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
Indie filmmaker Mike White, The White Lotus producer-writer-director, follows HBO’s sexploitation formula.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
The most famous is Tinto Brass’s notorious sexploitation movie Salon Kitty (1976), a crass collage of perversities, based on Peter Norden’s semifictional best seller of the same name, published six years earlier.
—David Motadel, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
In each biweekly segment, Olsen would highlight a bad movie — usually a direct-to-video horror, science fiction or sexploitation movie — highlighting the absurdities of each film.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
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Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
From Las Vegas to Atlantic City, hotel-casinos have clear and deep links to the sexploitation economy.
—Sonia Ossorio, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024
An ode to 1980s sexploitation and horror, MaXXXine completes Ti West’s trilogy starring Mia Goth.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Kitten Natividad, who brought audacity and ample physical attributes to some of the final films of Russ Meyer, whose over-the-top sexploitation movies acquired a certain cachet in some quarters and influenced John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and other directors, died on Sept. 24 in Los Angeles.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
Is this posthumous sexploitation?
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
Indie filmmaker Mike White, The White Lotus producer-writer-director, follows HBO’s sexploitation formula.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
The most famous is Tinto Brass’s notorious sexploitation movie Salon Kitty (1976), a crass collage of perversities, based on Peter Norden’s semifictional best seller of the same name, published six years earlier.
—David Motadel, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
In each biweekly segment, Olsen would highlight a bad movie — usually a direct-to-video horror, science fiction or sexploitation movie — highlighting the absurdities of each film.
—Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
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“Sexploitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexploitation. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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