pornoisseur

English

Etymology

Blend of porn +‎ connoisseur.

Noun

pornoisseur (plural pornoisseurs)

1. (informal) A person who consumes pornographic media.
   • 2005, David Dunlap Jr., X&Y review, Washington City Paper, 24 June 2005:

     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.

   • 2011, David Bidini, "It’s a friggin’ nuclear Technicolor smutfest!, The National Post, 30 January 2011:

     The 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.

   • 2012, Tracy Clark-Flory, "Better than actual porn!", Salon, 8 December 2012 (archived on Usenet):

     I’d heard similar proclamations from pornoisseur friends, but a celebrated adult performer calling it the pinnacle of smut.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pornoisseur.