[Ads-l] rustic bread; porn

[Mark Mandel]

I use "porn" figuratively in a couple of icons on my blog, "food porn" and
"language porn", not with any warning or opprobrious intent.

See
https://v.dreamwidth.org/1156966/1143119
and
https://v.dreamwidth.org/9807590/1143119

MAM



On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 9:45 AM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> > On Jan 20, 2020, at 5:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > ...  "Porn" is now often used to mean "any sensational or inconsequential
> > photographed or printed material that is very enjoyable to look at, esp.
> as
> > a 'guilty pleasure.'"
> >
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/2o649b/horten_ho_229_flying_over_g%C3%B6ttingen_germany_the/
> >   HistoryPorn.
> >
> > Originally this was an entirely opprobrious term. The earliest I'm aware
> of
> > is "war porn" (shallow, violent war movies that appeal to enthusiastic
> > idiots, from ca. 2002).
>
> on my blog:
>
> -----
>
> 6/5/12: X porn:
> https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/06/05/x-porn/
>
> In the case of porn, OED3 (Dec. 2006) has the subentry:
>
> >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 cites from 1973 on, including food porn, disaster porn, gastro-porn,
> weather porn, and more).
>
>

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