Meanings
nounporno chic (uncountable)
- uncountablePositive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.
This period of porno chic arrived with an asterisk that insisted it was all a game, a postmodern, sex-positive appropriation of porn’s tropes and aesthetics.
2025 April 15, Sophie Gilbert, “What Porn Taught a Generation of Women”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN
Origin
Coined by American journalist Ralph Blumenthal.
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