pornification en · NOUN
Etymology
From porn + -ification.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Conversion to the style or level of pornography.
The popularity of shows such as Love Island, where people are there to show off their bodies as a way of attracting a partner, again ties to that pornification of style.
2025 August 21, Leah Harper, quoting Shaun Cole, “The thong bikini boom: why the skimpiest swimwear is back – and suddenly mainstream”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:It may be hard to talk about fauxcest, facial abuse, or the strange sexualization of hamburgers in a Hardee's commercial, but phrases that silence critiques of pornography and pornification spring easily to the lips:[…]
2023, Bernadette Barton, The Pornification of America, page 78:Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women […]
2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture:Being pounded away at by sexual imagery – Miley Cyrus's crotch or tongue in my face, supposedly snigger-free TV where people have sex in a box, glossy imported dramas such as Masters of Sex, endless discussions about "pornification" and the badness of the internet – may be having the desired effect.
2013 October 9, Suzanne Moore, “Sex is everywhere you look, but the semiology of smut never changes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Perhaps the logical destination of this process of pornification is the increasing production of X-rated music videos, that is to say, explicit versions […]
2007, Susanna Paasonen, Kaarina Nikunen, Laura Saarenmaa, Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture: