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Etymology edit

porn +‎ -ification

Noun edit

pornification (uncountable)

  1. Conversion to the style or level of pornography.
    • 2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture:
      Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women []
    • 2007, Susanna Paasonen, Kaarina Nikunen, Laura Saarenmaa, Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture:
      Perhaps the logical destination of this process of pornification is the increasing production of X-rated music videos, that is to say, explicit versions []
    • 2023, Bernadette Barton, The Pornification of America[1], page 78:
      It may be hard to talk about fauxcest, facial abuse, or the strange sexualization of hamburgers in a Hardee's commercial, but phrases that silence critiques of pornography and pornification spring easily to the lips: []

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