snowclone: [X] porn

[Jim Parish]

James Harbeck wrote:
> A Google search for "it's just * porn" gets a few interesting hits --
> "it's just quality food porn", "it's just Journo-porn" ("I am sick of
> having to pay a licence fee for this level of excessive and obsessive
> detail about foriegn countries: it's just Journo-porn."), "it's just
> hurricane porn", "it's just lifestyle porn", "it's just war porn",
> "it's just Automotive porn", "it's just veg growers porn", "it's just
> car porn", "it's just discography porn"...

This construction is used in Pat Cadigan's SF novel _Synners_ (1991),
in which narrowcast channels devoted to "food porn" and a variety of
others are mentioned. (I believe there's even a reference to "porn
porn".)

Jim Parish

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