different between pornotopia vs pornocopia

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

English

Alternative forms

• porno-copia
• pornucopia

Etymology

Blend of porn +? cornucopia

Pronunciation

Noun

pornocopia (plural pornocopias)

1. An abundance of pornography, sexual imagery, or nudity.
   • 1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge (1999), ?ISBN, page 31:

     But the "coming" is decidedly profane: an encounter with a dominatrix, who strips Principle, makes him beg, then rides him through a porno-copia of sexual positions.

   • 2001, David Taras, Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media, Broadview Press (2001), ?ISBN, pages 110-111:

     What author Frank Rose calls the web's "pornocopia" generated close to $1 billion (U.S.) in revenue in 1996.

   • 2005, Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families, Owl Books (2005), ?ISBN, page 109:

     Back in the pre-"pornocopia" era, wearing a thong meant painful waxing and a wedgie, pole dancing meant emulating a low-class stripper, and taking a man for a lap dance meant tolerating and even endorsing the humiliation of watching your mate cheat.

   • 2006, Henry Jenkins, "'He's in the Closet but He's Not Gay': Male-Male Desire in Penthouse Letters", in Pornography: Film and Culture (ed. Peter Lehman), Rutgers University Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 147:

     Pornocopia represents a form of sexuality that, for the most part, only exists through fiction – a particular kind of pornographic space that gives greater license to the imagination of readers and writers alike than they were apt to enjoy in the real world.

   • 2007, Henry Jenkins, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, New York University Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 132:

     Hollywood becomes a "pornocopia" where erotic desire is everything and must be satisfied at all costs.

   • 2009, Terence Taylor, Bite Marks: A Vampire Testament, St. Martin's Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 51:

     Marlowe's eyes trailed slick video covers posted outside each, a pornocopia of pouting lips, inflated breasts, and overblown cocks.