KITCHEN PORN!?

I don't like the casual use of the term. Even the shortening of 'pornography' to 'porn' seems like an attempt to make it seem acceptable and harmless. Which I really don't believe it is.

I don't like the casual use of the word. Even the shortening of 'pornography' to 'porn' seems like an attempt to make it seem acceptable and harmless. Which I really don't believe it is.

Sorry - I've no idea how I seem to have posted twice!

Are there really people who can't or won't differentiate between pornography (the real thing) and the word porn as something that crops up in the modern vernacular?

Pearl clutching?

When I first saw the post thought it was about activities in the kitchen but now I know it's food. By the way, we are having sausage and mash tomorrow for lunch.

Well, I must be an innocent because I have never heard the word used for anything (other than porn).
I don’t watch much tv ( especially during the day) and only read the papers or mags when in waiting rooms.

Merlotgran, I find it sad that salaciousness is now commonplace & quite frankly (re Kitchen Porn) childish & belittling to woman .We haven't come very far have we if we are supposed to giggle etc because our Kitchens &food have been 'sexed up' pathetic

I suppose it depends whether you take these things seriously, Bridgeit. I don't.

I guess you disapprove of the Great British Bake Off as well?

No of course not, I would if it was called the The Great British Porn Bake Off, I just think that sexualising everything is at best pathetic & at worst childish . It is the worst form of hypocrisy when we are trying to protect our young people from early sexualisation etc on the one hand & then we are tellyvising silly innuendos on the other. Mixed message IMP. What we laugh at & enjoy in our own homes & circle of friends is a different matter , I just don't think popular TV. Needs to stoop to this .

That is exactly how I understood it to be too Cari.

I remember "ogling" fabulously tidy and organized larders in the name of "kitchen porn". Nothing to do with food at all.

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Oh I do love my (sexy) larder.

Pornography refers specifically to sexual acts etc so use it in others contexts is incorrect of course. Possibly harmless but trivialises something which has actually caused considerable harm to many.

Thank you Nannapat1, you explained that so well, that was the point I was trying to get across. maybe I'm just too sensitive to the suffering of some women for whom porn is no laughing matter . So to hear that word attached to a kitchen or anything else seems offensive & pathetic .

Language changes all the time, and slang and casual talk language moves on even faster. Use the word 'porn' on its own or as pornography or with other specific sexual phrases and it is a serious issue but kitchen porn or otherwise it simply means feasting the senses on something.

'murder' is a terrible crime, ends someone's life and causes great grief to the family, but most people will talk of being so hungry they could murder a steak, or an ice cream or sometimes when someone does something daft or inappropriate we will say that we could 'murder' someone for doing/saying/not saying something, when everyone knows we have no such attention.

Interesting Monica but not really the point

Words and language do develop and change and Monica makes a good point.

Bridgeit, Yes it is, nanpatl wrote Pornography refers specifically to sexual acts etc so use it in others contexts is incorrect of course. Possibly harmless but trivialises something which has actually caused considerable harm to many.

The purpose of my post was to contradict that statement
by saying that words develop over time and I used the loose and casual way the word 'murder' is used as another example of how a word for something deeply serious is adapted to describe other more casual occasions while still remaining as serious and untrivial as it ever was when used within that original context.

Thank you Chris1603

Haven’t they got anything more interesting to talk about on there think is such an awful programme never watch it.
Get fed up with these celebrities talking about their personal lives etc. Want to be in our shoes and the problems some of us have.
They live in an entirely different world.

Give me garden porn anyday..........mmmmmm seed catalogues. Language is eclectic and evolving and I rather like the idea of being thrilled by things other than sex.

The definition of pornography is 'printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate sexual excitement' - it's clearly another indication of the linguistic ignorance of our society that we now have phrases like kitchen porn, and car porn in common usage and people actually interpret this as meaning 'something we love about the kitchen or 'something we love about cars'. Are we so short on vocabulary that we had to do this and simultaneously sexualise every aspect of our lives? Quite frankly there's no reason why they such phrases should become even more commonplace by being bandied around on TV by the Loose Women team. However, of late this is just becoming par for the course for that particular programme - just tired of seeing one person in particular drooling embarrassingly over every man under the age of 40 who appears on the show.

Why does sex have to be linked to everything... porn, sexing things up etc. I find it really inappropriate. Prudish? probably... but then in the 1970s I was accused of being prudish too however alot of people look back at the 70s as inappropriate now. I must be very ahead of the times.

I think Loose Women gas just sunk to even lower depths.

I think this originally stemmed from bl**dy Nigella Lawson, whose programmes I loathe.

Sorry if my post was repetitive, but I can't bear her, all that fake coyness and eye liner.