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/pɔrnˈɑgrəfi/ Listen

noun

Pornography n.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

(Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

Obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures, videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the content of such materials.

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"Pornography" Quotes from Famous Books

... intervention on the part of the State to restore public morality, action for the suppression of alcoholism, gambling and pornography. ...

— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet

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... loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. For you'll be the same till it is cracked, like an insect in its skin. If one cracked your skull perhaps one might get a spontaneous, passionate woman out of you, with real sensuality. As it is, what you want is pornography—looking at yourself in mirrors, watching your naked animal actions in mirrors, so that you can have it all in your consciousness, make it ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

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... after the influence of Christianity had degraded erotic matters perilously near to that region of pornography from which they are only to-day beginning to be rescued—in his Sonnetti Lussuriosi described twenty-six different methods of coitus, each one accompanied by an illustrative design by Giulio Romano, the chief among ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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