About the word "porn" in a book title and in public

[Thurlow]

Trying to work out if I'm being really precious about this.

There's a book about bikes called Bike Porn which is just pictures of bikes, clearly aimed as a coffee table book. I first saw it a few weeks ago right by the till in one of those artsy gift shops and did a bit of a double take then forgot about it. However today we were at a fete and it was for sale and 6yo DD picked it up to give to her dad as he cycles. Of course she is then immediately asked what "porn" meant.

AIBU to think that it's really not the best word to put in the title of a general coffee table book that's clearly not aimed at am "adult" audience? Genuinely can't decide if I'm just being silly over this one.

If a word like 'porn' is censored, we end up spiralling down a very slippery slope trying to define which words are okay when basing then purely on the suitability of young children - something I hope you would understand is both stupid and potentially dangerous

Thats a very fair point and I hadn't considered it that way. Personally I'm not happy with the word and I obviously see it as stronger than most people do. But that's my opinion and you're right, we have to take a wider view on what is and isn't used as a standard word.

not everything in the world has to be geared towards children

Oh I completely get that and despite how my OP makes it sound I'm not normally someone who does expect it to revolve around children. Talking about it is making me see that it's a word that I, as an adult, am not comfortable with being normalised but that's clearly because to me it identifies most as a word relating to pornography, not just admiring something.

Would the best solution not be to say to young children, "That's a bit of a complicated word I will explain it to you when you are older", or even "That is a bit of a tricky one can I get back to you after I have thought about how to define it" and I imagine 5 minutes later everyone has forgotten what the word even was.