pornotopia
/ˌpɔɹ.nəˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fantasy world in which everyone is ready and willing to indulge in all kinds of sexual activity.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Whether written or pictorial, pornotopia overwhelmingly depicts or evokes visual images of female bodies (or male bodies, in the case of male homosexual pornography), particularly the genitals."
- "Pornotopia emerges as the forces of self-gratification, mass consumerism, and advanced technology merge."
- "Pornotopia, it turns out, has the same narrative problem all utopias do—a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about."
- "Pornotopia is a fantasy realm, made possible by evolutionarily novel technologies (film, DVDs, the Internet, things that did not exist for most of human history), in which impersonal sex with a variety of high mate value women is the norm rather than the rare exception."
Etymology
Blend of pornography + utopia; originally coined by American literary scholar and author Steven Marcus in his book The Other Victorians: a Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1966) to describe the setting in Victorian pornography.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɔɹ.nəˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
- British English: /ˌpɔː.nəˈtəʊ.pi.ə/