porno chic

English

Etymology

Coined by American journalist Ralph Blumenthal.

Noun

porno chic (uncountable)

  1. Positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.
    • 2025 April 15, Sophie Gilbert, “What Porn Taught a Generation of Women”, in The Atlantic‎[1], →ISSN:
      This period of porno chic arrived with an asterisk that insisted it was all a game, a postmodern, sex-positive appropriation of porn’s tropes and aesthetics.
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