pornscape
pornscape noun: a part of a city where the sale of pornography is concentrated.
Noun
pornscape (plural pornscapes)
- A part of a city where the sale of pornography is concentrated.
- Kitschy, other-directed places are the rule in downtown shopping and entertainment districts (where they reach perhaps their purest expression in the cityscape of pornography or 'pornscape'), in the roadside strips which fringe most cities, and in almost all tourist centres.1976, Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness, Pion, page 95
- The metaphorical landscape of pornography.
- Barcan notes the increasing popularity of ‘reality porn’ within the overall ‘pornscape’, and describes how this genre fetishizes authenticity and ‘brazenness’ or ‘rawness’.2009, David Bell, “Surveillance Is Sexy”, in Surveillance & Society, volume 6, number 3, →DOI, page 204
- We are living in willing captivity to our worst nightmares, ensepulchred inside a pseudo-ethnographic pornscape of the exotico-folklorico, those savage documentaries of the 1960s that have their roots in such 1950s films as Sex Madness, Savage Africa, Mau Mau, Cannibal Island, Continente Perduto...2009, Peter McLaren, “Foreword”, in Arlo Kempf, editor, Breaching the Colonial Contract: Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada, Springer, page ix
Forms of pornscape
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Origin of pornscape
From porn + -scape.
Questions about pornscape
- What does pornscape mean?
- Pornscape means a part of a city where the sale of pornography is concentrated.
- What part of speech is pornscape?
- Pornscape is a noun.
- What is the plural of pornscape?
- The plural of pornscape is pornscapes.
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