pornophone

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English

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Etymology

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Apparently coined after the addictive properties of smartphones and pornographic material.

Noun

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pornophone (plural pornophones)

  1. (derogatory) A smartphone, with or without any pornographic content.
    • 2022 May 10, Byung-Chul Han, Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      The smartphone is also a pornophone: we voluntarily expose ourselves. The smartphone functions like a mobile confessional box. It is the continuation of the 'sacral rule of the confessional box' in another form.