skinema

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US/ˈskɪn.ə.mə/UK/ˈskɪn.ɪ.mə/UK/ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/

noun

Pornographic cinema.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounskinema (countable and uncountable, plural skinemas)

plural skinemas

  1. countableuncountablePornographic cinema.

    (see title)

    2007, Chris Nieratko, Skinema, illustrated edition, powerHouse Books, →ISBN
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    On the whole, it's really a very exciting picture, but it's not art — as, indeed, what is in this world of the skinema!

    1939, Lowell Thomas, Francis Rufus Bellamy, editors, The Commentator, Volume 4, volume 4, Payson Publishing, page 123

    Therese and Isabelle is appearing in the same kind of neighborhood art house that in better days showed films by Antonioni and Godard. In short, the old skinema is putting on airs and is making a bid for the middle-class matron in the afternoon and the middle-class couple at night. Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman [FF '66], a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house […]

    1968, Filmfacts, Volume 11, volume 11, page 181

    In an esoteric new epic called Roseland, director Fredric Hobbs supersedes every skinema film ever made, not only by stuffing the screen to the edges with exposed epidermis, but by unveiling his masterstroke, the largest simulated dong in the civilized world today.

    1971, Penthouse, Volume 6, Issues 1-6, volume 6, numbers 1–6, Penthouse International

    It was filled with hard-core details on stuff from skinema to incest and orgies, and a lot of ministers were appalled by the handbook's contents. It may be banned as pornography.

    1975, New Times, Volume 4, volume 4, New Times Communications Corporation, page 8

    To overlook such a well-known and celebrated skin-chievement would render any guide to definitive skinema sexiness incomplete.

    2005, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked, illustrated edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 8

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