Both Uses of
perversion
in
Black Like Me
- This man offered his services free to any Negro woman over twenty, offered to pay, on an ascending scale, from two dollars for a nineteen-year-old girl up to seven fifty for a fourteen-year-old and more for perversion dates.†
- He was publicly labeled a pervert and his career in civil rights was effectively quashed.†
*pervert = (noun) someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society OR (verb) to convert something so it is not what it should be
Definition:
the conversion of something so it is not what it should be -- especially a sexual practice considered unacceptable by society