Thursday, September 29, 2005

porno-determinism

noun. A belief system based on a rigid, hard, throbbing belief in the power of porn to penetrate practically everything.

Real citation: "Porn may make a convenient scapegoat for everything that's appalling in the world these days, but new technologies or genres like Internet porn only thrive when they confirm dispositions already inherent in the culture. What I'm saying is that Paul mistakes a symptom for a cause: It's a muddled porno-determinism."
(Laura Kipnis, "Pornified and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Is it true that porn is degrading to women?," Slate, http://www.slate.com/id/2126570/entry/2126575/)

Made-up citation: "Was Plato a porno-determinist? I know Buddha wasn't, despite his memorable stint as a fluffer."

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