parapornography

Noun

parapornography (uncountable)

1. Literary work that is about sex or eroticism.
   • Sexuality in the realm of parapornography is not a place of humanist truths and psychological meaning (a vision of sexuality that dovetails all-too-neatly with the neo-liberal vision of the atomized, rationalist self) but rather an event that destroys 'meaning and identity through a mechanical...2013, James Pate, “Introduction”, in Carl-Michael Edenborg, editor, The Parapornographic Manifesto
   • In a painstaking takedown of Baker's “parapornography” in the London Review of Books, acknowledging its cleverness along with its suspect ethic, novelist-critic Adam Mars-Jones sees The Fermata as a book–being ultimately and only about masturbation–that is likely, in his clinching line, "to give...2022, Garrett Stewart, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors
2. Popularizations of parapsychology that lack any scientific merit.
   • In a recent interview for De Telegraaf, Johnson told me ESP was not an established fact, and he expressed eagerness for close cooperation with professional magicians in his battle against "parapornography."1979, The Skeptical Inquirer - Volume 4, page 65
   • The pervading presence of parapornography has considerably complicated the scientific debate over "the Paranormal" – to the point where proponents and opponents frequently exhibit nothing but utter confusion when asked to explain precisely what they disagree about.2017, Gerd H. Hövelmann, Hans Michels, Legitimacy of Unbelief, page 137