Citations:pornado

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English citations of pornado

  • 2010 September 10, John Aycock, “Chapter 6 Advertising”, in Spyware and Adware[1], illustrated edition, volume 50, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 86:
    The term “pornado” seems to be in use as early as 2001 to describe a flood of sexually explicit content [321], and it has definitely been applied to such pop-up windows by 2007 [59].
  • 2010 December 18, Gregory Bergman, Josh Lambert, Geektionary: From Anime to Zettabyte, An A to Z Guide to All Things Geek[2], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
    pornado (noun) An occurrence, while looking at online porn, where an endless stream of porn popups bombard the computer screen. A tornado is a devastating example of nature's fury, whereas a PORNADO is the direct result of you being a pervert.
  • 2011 August 30, Annelise Ryan, chapter 12, in Frozen Stiff[3], volume 3, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 82:
    Mention of the stunningly beautiful woman Hurley used to date quashes my mental pornado. “I'll have to talk to Izzy,” I tell him. “But I don't think it will be a problem given the hours I've put in this weekend.”
  • 2013 February 12, Michael Olson, “Section 16”, in Strange Flesh: A Novel[4], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 164:
    He found himself at loose ends after Boom 1.0 collapsed and decided to turn his web skills toward documenting the thing he cared about most about: sex. His site could have ended up a worthless pornado trap, but he brought an edgy intellectual style to Compleat-jerk.com and somehow developed a loyal readership.
  • 2015 September 15, Matthew S. Hiley, chapter 16, in Baseball Dads[5], Greenleaf Book Group, →ISBN:
    His office looked as though a tornado of porn had blown through it. A pornado, if you will. He left everything as it was, pulled his arm through the sleeves of his buttonless shirt, and flipped off the lights.
  • 2018 October 2, Os Guinness, “Are You Vigilant About the Ideas Crucial to Freedom?”, in Last Call for Liberty: How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat[6], InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 253:
    A potent blend of permisiveness, promiscuity, profit, and pornography has created the so-called American “pornado” and transformed America from Puritan to “pornified.”
  • 2018 November 15, Naomi L. Shin, Daniel Erker, “Linguistic reconsiderations for the existence of Spanglish”, in Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy[7], illustrated edition, volume 76, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 231:
    Portmanteaus exist for which the referent does not follow the extant pattern. A pornado, for instance, is the activity of viewing pornography in a mindless or out of control manner, not the pornography itself, nor a weather event.
  • 2020 November 4, David Connor, E.F. Mulder, Double Flip[8], JMS Books LLC, →ISBN:
    “The video. Again. Mine.” Adam shrugged. “I didn't wanna catch you up in the vortex of crap.” “Oh.” “The pornado.” Ben barked out a quick laugh. “Not that a different pornado didn't sweep me up anyway. You gotta stop that, ya know?” “Porn? Never!” Ben laughed again.
  • 2021 April 13, Sarina Bowen, Bombshells: A sports romance in the Brooklyn Hockey series[9], Tuxbury Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
    He'd jokingly referred to it as our “pornado.” And that's not a bad description for our hasty trip into ambitious, athletic, all-consuming sex.
  • (Can we date this quote?), Sarina Bowen, Brooklyn Hockey All Stars Collection 2[10], Tuxbury Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
    He'd jokingly referred to it as our “pornado.” And that's not a bad description for our hasty trip into ambitious, athletic, all-consuming sex.