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pornophone en · NOUN

Etymology

Apparently coined after the addictive properties of smartphones and pornographic material.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory) A smartphone, with or without any pornographic content.
    • The smartphone is also a pornophone: we voluntarily expose ourselves. The smartphone functions like a mobile confessional box. It is the continuation of the 'sacral rule of the confessional box' in another form. 2022 May 10, Byung-Chul Han, Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

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