pornscape

English

Etymology

porn +‎ -scape

Noun

pornscape (plural pornscapes)

1. A part of a city where the sale of pornography is concentrated.
   • 1976, Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness, Pion, page 95:

     Kitschy, other-directed places are the rule in downtown shopping and entertainment districts (where they reach perhaps their purest expression in the cityscape of pornography or 'pornscape'), in the roadside strips which fringe most cities, and in almost all tourist centres.

2. The metaphorical landscape of pornography.
   • 2009, David Bell, “Surveillance Is Sexy”, in Surveillance & Society, volume 6, number 3, →DOI, page 204:

     Barcan notes the increasing popularity of ‘reality porn’ within the overall ‘pornscape’, and describes how this genre fetishizes authenticity and ‘brazenness’ or ‘rawness’.

   • 2009, Peter McLaren, “Foreword”, in Arlo Kempf, editor, Breaching the Colonial Contract: Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada, Springer, page ix:

     We are living in willing captivity to our worst nightmares, ensepulchred inside a pseudo-ethnographic pornscape of the exotico-folklorico, those savage documentaries of the 1960s that have their roots in such 1950s films as Sex Madness, Savage Africa, Mau Mau, Cannibal Island, Continente Perduto, Magia Verde and L’Impero del Sole—documentaries who go by such names as Mondo Cane, Mondo Nudo, Mondo Freud, Hollywood’s World of Flesh, Onna Onna Onna Monogatari, La Femme Spectacle.

   • 2014, Enrico Biasin, Giovanna Maina, Federico Zecca, “Introduction”, in Enrico Biasin, Giovanna Maina, Federico Zecca, editors, Porn After Porn: Contemporary Alternative Pornographies, Mimesis International, page 17:

     In her chapter, Micha Cárdenas analyses queer porn paysites as (potential) postcapitalist projects, drawing on the work of the feminist economist duo J. K. Gibson-Graham; while Katrien Jacobs’s article documents the struggle of netporn to maintain its “radical promises,” in a pornscape dominated by serialization and “tamed obscenities.”