[avenir]

Bet you dollars to doughnuts that Coach has some interest we, using his definition, could assert as “pornography”. I read a review of SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE once that described the film as a charming “piece of real estate porn” (Keaton’s beach home).

Silly word games. Pornography is by definition sexual, period.

[jobim]

This was a very brief yet very insightful extended definition. Thanks for posting, OPM.

Coach's thesis comes at the conclusion, with "pornography"
defined as that which, through its ephemeral, transitory,
detached, cost-free yet immediately emotionally gratifying punch,
shields us, momentarily, from lives lacking in sufficient purpose
that we cannot keep a sustained interest in that which we actually
assert control over.

Tom Wolfe's essay "Pornoviolence" from about 40 years ago,
predicted that the new pornography would be saturated in violence.
He wrote this after the release of "In Cold Blood" and the emerging
Natl Enquirer-like new media of cheap thrills.