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Pornography
Definitions
- 1 The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature. uncountable, usually
"Many websites have a complete ban on pornography."
- 2 creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire wordnet
- 3 The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction. broadly, uncountable, usually
""It's true," Vanya now, "look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and songs and they lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort." A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin, "The self-induced orgasm.""
- 4 The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something. humorous, uncountable, usually
"In The Four Pillars of Wisdom, he devotes a well-deserved chapter to the financial press and its weakness for "financial pornography"—lurid coverage of star money managers."
- 1 To turn into pornography. transitive, uncommon
"Their very being is so pornographied by automated content filters that they are largely barred from sexual expression online."
Etymology
From French pornographie, from Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos), from πορνεία (porneía, “fornication, prostitution”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I depict”).
From French pornographie, from Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos), from πορνεία (porneía, “fornication, prostitution”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I depict”).
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