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porn, porno, a. and n. colloq.|pɔːn, ˈpɔːnəʊ|
A. adj. Abbrevs. of pornographic a.
1952N. Mailer Man who studied Yoga in Advts. for Myself (1961) 175, It is dirty, downright porno dirty, it is a lewd slop-brush slapped through the middle of domestic exasperations and breakfast eggs. 1963‘D. Cory’ Hammerhead ii. 21 Judging from the script..it might be just the tiniest bit porno. 1964N. Freeling Double-Barrel v. i. 148 Looking at Miss Burger through binoculars was porno..anything porno is so hatefully sad. 1970Time 16 Nov. 92 So busy are the makers of porn films in San Francisco that they have depressed the market for imported sex movies. 1972J. Brown Chancer xv. 208 First, take the evidence. The joints, the photos, the porno magazines. 1972Screw 12 June 19/1 This week I am reviewing the very best porn film ever made, so superior to others that it defies comparison. 1972New Yorker 2 Dec. 164/2 They use their porno fantasies as part of the case they make for the slaughter of the whites. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird iii. 36 Jacko had put away his porn pictures. 1974Publishers Weekly 18 Nov. 45/2 A teenage girl who had been trying to make the big time by performing at Beverly Hills orgies and doing porno films. 1976Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 13/5 If only he would feed her, or take her to a porno movie—or even for a walk! 1978S. Sheldon Bloodline xxii. 249 It's a porno film.
B. n.
1. Abbrevs. of pornographer. rare.
1958L. Durrell Balthazar vi. 144 ‘The old Porn himself!’ (He had coined this nickname from the word ‘pornographer’.) 1969Time 5 Sept. 27 The right-wing National Democratic Party derides [Gunther] Grass as a ‘porno’, because his works are peppered with four-letter words.
2. Abbrevs. of pornography. Also attrib. and qualified by hard or soft (cf. pornography 2 a).
1962John o' London's 10 May 456/2 The central character and narrator, the Captain, is a seedy but not at all unsympathetic individual who makes a precarious living by writing ‘porn’. 1964New Society 13 Feb. 5/3 The stuff men pass round in barrack rooms as ‘a nice bit of porn’. Ibid. 6/2 ‘There's nothing odd about our customers,’ the porn shop assistant said. 1967L. Deighton London Dossier 192 Books..divided into two main sections, straight ‘porn’ and sadism. 1968Punch 31 July 144/1 Gavin, the Old Etonian ex-monk who is now one of London's most around publishers (‘Not porno, love, the word's engagé, ha-ha-ha!’). 1969R. Airth Snatch! ii. 21 Cognac, cigarettes, porn— small-time, Harry, small-time. 1970Guardian 17 Jan. 10/1 However thin and tippling the Lennon lithographs..they were not pure tosh or porn. Ibid. 26 Nov. 4/4 The porno and sex wave crashes relentlessly on. 1972Daily Mirror 12 Oct. 1 An all-out attack is to be mounted against the porn-pushers in Britain's High Streets. 1973L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters i. 8 A large and flourishing porn shop. 1974Publishers Weekly 4 Mar. 67/3 The condition of the cinema today (lousy stories, no real stars, too much porno). 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 96 Standing amid the alien porn of Soho. 1976T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die viii. 154 An elderly woman..looked up from the nudie magazine... More soft porn lay around her. 1977E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xxiv. 274 Perhaps the institution of an Oscar for the best hard porn movie of the year might give the producers an incentive to quit conning their public. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xii. 130, I could write the soft-porn love stories for the top-of-the-line magazine. 1980G. Greene Dr. Fischer xv. 108, I..sat for an hour before a soft porn film.
▸ fig. As the second element in compounds: denoting written or visual material that emphasizes the sensuous or sensational aspects of a non-sexual subject, appealing to its audience in a manner likened to the titillating effect of pornography.
1973Jrnl. Pop. Culture 7 257 A real innovator in horror-porn, he was the first underground cartoonist to revel in atrocity, to pack his pages with entrails and a crew of frenzied characters who enjoy nothing so much as chewing on a bit of warm bowel. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Dec. 18/2 True gastro-porn heightens the excitement and also the sense of the unattainable by proffering colored photographs of various completed recipes. 1991Locus May 19/2 Practically anything that can be obsessed about turns up as hyphenated pornography: food-porn, disaster-porn. 1998Independent 18 Aug. ii. 13/1 Weather-porn, as it is known, also embraces programmes on volcanoes, earthquakes, meteors and dinosaurs. 2002Dissent Winter 27/2 The writers are particularly tough on themselves, especially when they fear they may be turning out the kind of ‘war porn’ that makes the slaughter they describe seem fascinating rather than horrifying. |