to not like the mainstream use of the word porn as in "property porn"

[JosieMiller]

or not

I think there are bigger things happening today

Well seeing as the definition of pornography is

"por⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy
   /pɔrˈnɒgrəfi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [pawr-nog-ruh-fee] Show IPA
?noun
obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit."

Then you ANB at all as it is bad english

thanks for pointing out that it's not property pawn as i've always thought (never made any sense to me )

My DH calls Mumsnet "your pregnancy porn" because I get a bit addictes to childbirth and birth stories threads...

Fuck me what happened to my link

Anyway you take my point....

Mmmmmm. Pedantically speaking, no, YANBU. OTOH language evolves, and 'porn' is a very evocative word. It fits the context. So as someone who really enjoys catalogue porn (Lakeland...ahhhh) - YABU. .

I don't really like the idea that "porn" is a mainstream word, bandied around by all and sundry, in the same way I don't like the term "pimp my" whatever it happens to be, or the use of the terms bitch and whore as everyday words for women amongst many people...

But pmp my, bitch, etc are all deliberately offensive. Whereas porn describes something in a way that diminishes its value. Does it matter whether the range of things that word describes widens? That happens all the time as languages evolve.

I don't know and I see your point. Language is powerful though. And if the word porn is used by all and sundry all over the shop it kind of makes actual porn more accessible somehow, not as seedy, not something furtive but out in the open.

Interestingly I don't agree that "porn describes something in a way that diminishes its value". Porn in any context to me primarily means something to excite the senses of the viewer.

So property porn is where the property is shot and described so lovingly that watching it is a sensual experience...

YANBU, I don't like it either. I admit I have used the phrase 'property porn' amongst other adults but I suppose I just don't like the word porn being used in any context where there might be kids present.

It normalises it and makes it mainstream in a way I don't feel comfortable with.

Oh god, 'pimp my' and 'pimped up' totally irritate me too.

i think it is just a word. fairly unoriginal to use ti now but i don't think using the word porn suddenly means we are going to be inondated with millions of nudey people copulating in the middle of the street. [clicks heels together 3 times and says 'theres no place like porn']

The thing is, 'porn' in the sense of sexually-explicit material isn't all bad. There is nothing wrong with depictions of sexual activity which are intended to excite the viewer. What is really needed is a simple word to describe material (whether sexual or not) that is offensive to some people. Oh, wait, that would be 'media'....

Well when we spend an evening slagging off commenting on Location Location and Grand Designs here, we seem to have settled on Property Twats night...is that better or worse?

catbum I think if it wasn't for pornographic images becoming much more mainstream than they used to be - news of the world at kiddy eye height etc, nuts FHM type imagery being bombarded at us all the time, I wouldn't mind so much. As things are it is just another thing which makes porn more mainstream - the word is mainstream the images are mainstream and so on...