Pornscape

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 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’."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From porn + -scape.

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