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pornscapes

pornscapes is the plural of pornscape.

Meaning of pornscape

Noun

pornscape (plural pornscapes)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Questions about pornscapes

What is pornscapes the plural of?
Pornscapes is the plural of pornscape.

Words near pornscapes in the dictionary

  1. pornotropes
  2. pornotroping
  3. pornoviolence
  4. porns
  5. pornscape
  6. pornscapes
  7. pornsick
  8. pornsite
  9. pornsites
  10. pornstache
  11. pornstaches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pornscapes (page history and authors); pornscape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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