sexpo

English

Etymology

Blend of sex +‎ expo

Noun

sexpo (plural sexpos)

1. An exhibition of sex toys or other sexual goods and services.
   • 1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session], Part 11‎^[1], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 6894:

     Though most sexpo exhibs were reluctant to talk last week, it's clear that porno jitters are again vibrating in Manhattan, this time generated not by threatened police action, but by a series of anonymous bomb threats which gained sudden credibility last Tues night (9) when two pipe bombs exploded during performances at the Doll Theatre at Seventh Ave. at 48th St. and at Hollywood Twin Theatre on Eighth Ave. near 48th.

   • 2009, Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash, page 60:

     3:45-5:45pm - there's a sexpo. dildos, vibrators, costumes, plastic vaginas, whips, cuffs, sex games, […]

   • 2016 August 1, Maria Katsonis, Lee Kofman, Rebellious Daughters‎^[2], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     During one of my mother's recent visits to Australia to see me, I suggested we go to the sexpo exhibition. She agreed, although without knowing exactly what she was agreeing to.

   • 2021 May 4, Lindy McDougall, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century‎^[3], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

     Some surgeons in Australia promote their practices at annual sexpo exhibitions held in the main cities. Breast and buttock augmentation and female genital cosmetic surgery, the latter often advertised as a “designer vagina,” predominate at such events, with photographs of the various body parts labeled with phrases such as “enhance your pleasure” (for genital cosmetic surgery), “enhance your assets,” and “tighten yout tush.”