Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

porno chic en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by American journalist Ralph Blumenthal.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Positive mainstream attention toward sexually explicit films, beginning in the late 1960s with commercial American pornography.
    • This period of porno chic arrived with an asterisk that insisted it was all a game, a postmodern, sex-positive appropriation of porn’s tropes and aesthetics. 2025 April 15, Sophie Gilbert, “What Porn Taught a Generation of Women”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN: