What is "pornogrification"

Pornogrification, sometimes referred to as raunch culture, denotes the intrusion of the style and contents of the sex industry into mainstream culture (music, television, Hollywood movies) and the sexualisation of Western culture. Pornogrification, particularly sexualising the images of women, is said to demonstrate "how patriarchal power operates in the field of gender representation." In Women in Popular Culture, Marion Meyers argues that the portrayal of women in modern society is primarily influenced by "the mainstreaming of pornography and its resultant hypersexualization of women and girls, and the commodification of those images for a global market."

The phenomenon has been discussed by authors such as Marian Meyers and Kath Woodward. Pornogrification also features in discussions of post-feminism by Natasha Walter, Feona Attwood, and Brian McNair.