Etymology

intimatopia

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Today it means: A fantasy world that serves as an ideal setting for sexually charged relationships involving a high degree of sustained emotional intimacy. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of intimate + utopia; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream (2006) to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction.

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