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Pornography   /pɔrnˈɑgrəfi/   Listen
noun
Pornography  n.  
1.
Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
2.
(Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
3.
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



... 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 Raphael's pupils. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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