pornonormativity

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English

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Etymology

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From porno- +‎ normativity.

Noun

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pornonormativity (uncountable)

  1. The phenomenon of human sexual expression being shaped by the conventions of mainstream pornography.
    • 2010, Alison Rooke, Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, “Beyond 'Key Parties' and 'Wife Swapping': The Visual Culture of Online Swinging”, in Feona Attwood, editor, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 234:
      Female same-sex sexuality is represented in ways which are circumscribed by the conventions of pornonormativity and heteroflexibility.
    • 2010, Hastings Donnan, Fiona Magowan, The Anthropology of Sex, Berg, →ISBN, page 146:
      Sadomasochism has been analyzed in recent times by sociologists, social psychologists and others in terms of 'pornonormativity', i.e. sexual scripts derived from images and narratives of porn []
    • 2011, Susanna Paasonen, Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 121:
      Don Slater makes use of a similar term, "pornonormativity," when discussing the repetition of heterporn conventions in IRC porn exchanges. The aspects of "pornonormativity" include the recycling of sex acts, body types, fetishes, and kinks familiar from so-called mainstream porn, deeply gendered self-representatives ("young blonde bombshells and well-hung dudes"), []
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