snowclone: [X] porn (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Often seen in blogs in the form "X pron/pr0n", "pron/pron" being a
leetspeak (?) respelling to get past filters, etc.

"Gun pr0n" gets 10200 Google hits.

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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:03:31PM -0400, James Harbeck wrote:
> > I first encountered "torture porn" in reference to _The Passion of
> > the Christ_ a few years ago, and it had a certain catch to it --
I've
> > encountered it occasionally since, and a Google search pulls up
quite
> > a few other instances. On Thursday I saw "pessimism porn" noted in
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/opinion/26schott.html?th&emc=th ,
> > in reference to the Great Depression kinds of themes that have been
> > focus in the popular media: millions homeless etc.
> >
> > 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"...
> >
> > I'm not sure if this one has been noted before.
>
> It's in OED, _porn_ n.(2) sense 2, "As the second element in
> compounds: denoting written or visual material that emphasizes
> the sensuous or sensational aspects of a non-sexual subject,
> appealing to its audience in a manner likened to the
> titillating effect of pornography," with quotes back to 1973,
> including _food porn_, _disaster porn_, _gastro-porn_,
> _weather porn_, etc.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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