Meanings
plural pornoisseurs
- informalA person who consumes pornographic media.
I’d heard similar proclamations from pornoisseur friends, but a celebrated adult performer calling it the pinnacle of smut.
2012, Tracy Clark-Flory, "Better than actual porn!", Salon, 8 December 2012 (archived on Usenet)2 more examples
For years, I was so concerned that I would be ridiculed for liking Coldplay that I hid the band’s CDs with the paranoid shame of a pornoisseur.
2005, David Dunlap Jr., X&Y review, Washington City Paper, 24 June 2005The fellow behind the desk — I’ll call him Rahim — was, like everything else in the store, bathed in enough fluoresence to radiate even greater shame and humility on the pornoisseur, which, at this hour, included no one other than myself.
2011, David Bidini, "It’s a friggin’ nuclear Technicolor smutfest!, The National Post, 30 January 2011
Origin
Blend of porn + connoisseur.
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