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porno chic

porno chic noun: positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.

Noun

porno chic (uncountable)

  1. Positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.
    • This period of porno chic arrived with an asterisk that insisted it was all a game, a postmodern, sex-positive appropriation of porn’s tropes and aesthetics.2025 April 15, Sophie Gilbert, “What Porn Taught a Generation of Women”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

Origin of porno chic

Coined by American journalist Ralph Blumenthal.

Questions about porno chic

What does porno chic mean?
Porno chic means positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.
What part of speech is porno chic?
Porno chic is a noun.

Words near porno chic in the dictionary

  1. porniness
  2. pornless
  3. pornlike
  4. pornmaker
  5. porno
  6. porno chic
  7. porno mag
  8. porno mags
  9. porno-
  10. porno-copia
  11. porno-copias

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