pro-ana

British  

adjective

1. of or relating to the belief that anorexia is a viable lifestyle choice rather than a disorder

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adjective

1. an internet-based community advocating this view

Etymology

Origin of pro-ana

C21: from _pro- + _an ( _orexi ) _a

Example Sentences

It’s good to shine a light on the darkest corners of the pro-ana Internet, but these fringe groups are echoes of our own panic.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015

They’re beginning to wonder if we’ve been viewing the pro-ana problem all wrong.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015

In a paper published last year, psychotherapist Tom Wooldridge describes one patient with anorexia who used pro-ana blogging as “a psychic retreat” where she could “withdraw from overwhelming emotional pain.”

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015

Vice’s Nadja Brenneisen recently spent a week posing as a teen in a pro-ana WhatsApp group where girls praised an old-school “goddess of emaciation” and monitored each other’s diets with tyrannical zeal.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015

This spring, France extended the crusade to the offline world: Lawmakers passed a new criminal offense, “l’incitation à la maigreur excessive,” or inciting excessive thinness, that could finally put pro-ana bloggers in prison.

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2015