KITCHEN PORN!?

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.

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.

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

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

Interesting Monica but not really the point

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.

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 .

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.

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Oh I do love my (sexy) larder.

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.

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 .

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?

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

Anything with "porn" on the end, apart from porn itself just means something you really love. So for instance, car porn just means looking at loads of cars, most of which you can't afford but would love to own. Kitchen porn is looking through kitchen magazines/brochures or products selling things that go in your kitchen and lusting over them. You've just bought a Tesco value toaster, but you see a glass toaster on TV and you really want it and get a bit obsessed by it - that's kitchen porn.

Anything with "porn" on the end, apart from porn itself just means something you really love. So for instance, car porn just means looking at loads of cars, most of which you can't afford but would love to own. Kitchen porn is looking through kitchen magazines/brochures or products selling things that go in your kitchen and lusting over them. You've just bought a Tesco value toaster, but you see a glass toaster on TV and you really want it and get a bit obsessed by it - that's kitchen porn.

I saw the programme. They were saying how they loved Nigella's kitchen equipment like her see-through toaster. Some of the panel members have appeared on Celebrity Masterchef and therefore jokingly referred to the Lakeland catalogue as porn. Just a bit of harmless fun, nothing more! I only turned the TV on as it was pouring with rain, but there are many regular viewers. A bit of snobbery is showing here.

By the way, the Screwfix catalogue is my favourite publication (no pun intented!).

I have always thought that kitchen porn meant merely poring over cookery books that are more about feasting on the pictures than actually making any of the dishes.

It is a phrase that has been around for years. At home we tend to use phrases like this casually about anything where someone is slightly obsessed by books and pictures of all kinds of quite innocent subjects.

DD loves teddy bears and has lots of pictures of teddy bears on the wall around her desk, which we refer to as DD's bear porn.

Porn at lunch-time
in the kitchen