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"Porn actress" is an oxymoron anyway, isn't it?



No, Conundrum, it is not. Why would you think it was?

Do all of the performances seem so realistic to you that you could not believe that anybody could possibly be acting?

"Porn actress" is not an oxymoron it is an understatement.





I didn't call the term "porn actress" an oxymoron because it fits the strict linguistic definition. It doesn't. I did it to express my feeling that the acting in porn movies is usually so bad that the words "porn" and "actress" are incongruous to me. Incongruous to the point of contradiction.

Sometimes people claim that a pair of terms is an oxymoron for humorous effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...