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pornonormativity

pornonormativity noun: the phenomenon of human sexual expression being shaped by the conventions of mainstream pornography.

Noun

pornonormativity (uncountable)

  1. The phenomenon of human sexual expression being shaped by the conventions of mainstream pornography.
    • Female same-sex sexuality is represented in ways which are circumscribed by the conventions of pornonormativity and heteroflexibility.2010, Alison Rooke, Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, “Beyond 'Key Parties' and 'Wife Swapping': The Visual Culture of Online Swinging”, in Feona Attwood, editor, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online...
    • Sadomasochism has been analyzed in recent times by sociologists, social psychologists and others in terms of 'pornonormativity', i.e. sexual scripts derived from images and narratives of porn […]2010, Hastings Donnan, Fiona Magowan, The Anthropology of Sex, Berg, →ISBN, page 146

Origin of pornonormativity

From porno- + normativity.

Questions about pornonormativity

What does pornonormativity mean?
Pornonormativity means the phenomenon of human sexual expression being shaped by the conventions of mainstream pornography.
What part of speech is pornonormativity?
Pornonormativity is a noun.

Words near pornonormativity in the dictionary

  1. pornology
  2. pornomania
  3. pornomaniac
  4. pornomaniacs
  5. pornonormative
  6. pornonormativity
  7. pornophile
  8. pornophiles
  9. pornophilia
  10. pornophilic
  11. pornophobe

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