pornification

English

Etymology

From porn +‎ -ification.

Noun

pornification (uncountable)

1. Conversion to the style or level of pornography.
   • 2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture:

     Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women […]

   • 2007, Susanna Paasonen, Kaarina Nikunen, Laura Saarenmaa, Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture:

     Perhaps the logical destination of this process of pornification is the increasing production of X-rated music videos, that is to say, explicit versions […]

   • 2023, Bernadette Barton, The Pornification of America‎^[1], page 78:

     It may be hard to talk about fauxcest, facial abuse, or the strange sexualization of hamburgers in a Hardee's commercial, but phrases that silence critiques of pornography and pornification spring easily to the lips: […]

See also

• pornified