Pornotopia

//ˌpɔɹ.nəˈtoʊ.pi.ə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fantasy world in which everyone is ready and willing to indulge in all kinds of sexual activity. uncountable, usually

    "Whether written or pictorial, pornotopia overwhelmingly depicts or evokes visual images of female bodies (or male bodies, in the case of male homosexual pornography), particularly the genitals."

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"Whether written or pictorial, pornotopia overwhelmingly depicts or evokes visual images of female bodies (or male bodies, in the case of male homosexual pornography), particularly the genitals."

Etymology

Blend of pornography + utopia; originally coined by American literary scholar and author Steven Marcus in his book The Other Victorians: a Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1966) to describe the setting in Victorian pornography.

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