different between indulge vs pornotopia

English

Etymology

From the Latin indulge? (“I indulge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d?ld?/

Verb

indulge (third-person singular simple present indulges, present participle indulging, simple past and past participle indulged)

1. (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.

2. (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet

     Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
3. To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.

4. To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
5. To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

   • persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners

Synonyms

• (to satisfy the wishes of): coddle, cosset, pamper, spoil
• See also Thesaurus:indulge

Related terms

• indulgence
• indulgent
• indulger

Translations

Anagrams

• Legundi, dueling, eluding

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uld?e

Verb

indulge

1. third-person singular present indicative of indulgere

Latin

Verb

indulg?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of indulge?

English

Etymology

Blend of pornography +? utopia; originally coined by literary scholar and author Steven Marcus in his book The Other Victorians: a Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1966) to describe the setting in Victorian pornography.

Noun

pornotopia (usually uncountable, plural pornotopias)

1. A fantasy world in which everyone is ready and willing to indulge in all kinds of sexual activity.
   • 1990, Bruce J. Ellis and Donald Symons (November 1990), "Sex differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary psychological approach", Journal of Sex Research, 27(4):527–555, page 544:

     Whether written or pictorial, pornotopia overwhelmingly depicts or evokes visual images of female bodies (or male bodies, in the case of male homosexual pornography), particularly the genitals.

   • 1994, Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover (1994), "The pornographic state", Harvard Law Review, 107:1374–1399 – via Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons, page 1375:

     Pornotopia emerges as the forces of self-gratification, mass consumerism, and advanced technology merge.

   • 2012, Roger Bellin (21 May 2012), "Pornotopia", Los Angeles Review of Books (retrieved 2017-10-31; archived from the original 2017-10-31):

     Pornotopia, it turns out, has the same narrative problem all utopias do—a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about.

   • 2012, Catherine Salmon (June 2012), "The pop culture of sex: an evolutionary window on the worlds of pornography and romance", Review of General Psychology, 16(2):152–160, DOI:10.1037/a0027910, page 155:

     Pornotopia is a fantasy realm, made possible by evolutionarily novel technologies (film, DVDs, the Internet, things that did not exist for most of human history), in which impersonal sex with a variety of high mate value women is the norm rather than the rare exception.

Derived terms

• pornotopic
• pornotopian

See also

• intimatopia
• romantopia