# 'Porn' versions of non-sexual activities **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 1, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419 "2004-11-01T22:03:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/21 "2004-11-02T13:14:05Z")
Is Martha Stewart in jail for being a pornographer? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/22 "2004-11-02T13:27:26Z")
You see weather porn on display every hurricane season ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/23 "2004-11-02T14:45:52Z")
> [@gouda](#): > > As an add-on to travel porn, there is food porn. Not cooking shows, but more as an ad-on to travel shows, where the host travels all over the world tasting exotic cuisines, for free! > > Car & bikes shows on tv are vehicle porn. I’m especially jealous of Jeremy Clarkson - he’s a pompous prick, but he does have the best job in the world. That would be Foreign Food Porn. 😉 From the other thread: > [@Evil Captor](#): > > “Time pornography” – I love this concept. Reminds me of another that I came up with – “food porn,” i.e., most cooking shows. Sorry but I don’t beleive you originated the term. I have referred to cookbooks and food magazines (only the ones with full color pics) and cooking shows as “food porn” for quite some time. Although I rarely said it aloud because people would get the wrong idea. I didn’t remember ever hearing anyone else use the term. Several months ago I commented on this is my livejournal and other people knew exactly what I meant without me having to explain it because they also thought of it as food porn. (There were, of course, a few sicko’s that thought it involved people in sexual congress with food items.) I think it’s one of those terms that many people come up with on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/24 "2004-11-02T15:09:27Z")
Interior decorating and home furnishing magazines are in the most, pornography. Something attractive yet unattainable to fantasise and drool over. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/25 "2004-11-02T16:20:42Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > the new modeling software that will reproduce a Hammond B-3 with dual Leslies! This sentence fragment really did get me excited! Oh, but it’s never as good in real life as it is in your imagination, you know… ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/26 "2004-11-02T16:44:04Z")
Thread Porn as advocated by **iampunha** ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/27 "2004-11-02T16:56:02Z")
I suppose you could describe car magazines about high performance models car porn. All those glossy pictures of perfectly polished models, shots of rear ends, under the bonnet to see the gyanacological details. No mundane readers cars here either, these babies are top of the range, the sort you only walk past and drool over infront of specialist shops. Is that enough? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/28 "2004-11-02T17:04:47Z")
> [@BadBadger](#): > > Thread Porn as advocated by **iampunha** ::: runs through thread in bikini briefs ::: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/29 "2004-11-02T17:11:35Z")
mmmmm, Polycarporn > [@Wile E](#): > > That would be Foreign Food Porn. 😉 > > …Sorry but I don’t beleive you originated the term. I have referred to cookbooks and food magazines (only the ones with full color pics) and cooking shows as “food porn” for quite some time. I’m perfectly willing to believe that many people have come up with this term independently. My dear husband refers to my cooking magazines as Gastroporn, and as far as I know he made up the term himself. ---
**Author:** ![BadBadger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BadBadger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBadger)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/30 "2004-11-02T19:56:36Z")
> [@polycarp](#): > > ::: runs through thread in bikini briefs ::: How _you_ doin? 😉 Oh, how bout Post-It Porn. Scatter them all around the office and by the time you get to your desk you’re on yer knees…so to speak… ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/31 "2004-11-03T02:33:31Z")
When we play hackeysack, a self-serve is called Hacksturbation. So, that kind of fits. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-versions-of-non-sexual-activities/272419/32 "2004-11-03T03:22:23Z")
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