Etymology

pornotopia

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Today it means: A fantasy world in which everyone is ready and willing to indulge in all kinds of sexual activity. Full definition →

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The story

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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