Pornography

/pɔːˈnɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ · noun

Meaning

The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature..

Definitions by Sense

1. The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature.
2. (by extension) The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction.
3. (usually humorous) The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something.
4. (transitive, uncommon) To turn into pornography.

Example Sentences

Many websites have a complete ban on pornography.

The same is true of her call for a discrimination of pornographies: 'various pornographies operate differently, cater to different audiences and elicit different sexual response'.[…]Certainly, the pornographies which circulate among us include some directed specifically at women — not just the pornography of emotions on which Mills and Boon romances capitalise so successfully, nor even religious pornography like Colleen McCullough's The thorn birds (1977), which offers Roman Catholic women the vicarious thrills of sexual relations with a priest — but precisely the kind of pornography that in some feminist criticism is assumed to be for men only.

The dispute over pornography and censorship has split both liberals and feminists.

In Chapter 3 we reviewed the various views about sexual offending, and noted that there is a paucity of research on the role of child pornography in adult sexual interest in children.

"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."

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.

Their very being is so pornographied by automated content filters that they are largely barred from sexual expression online.

[JD] Vance also expressed concerns about the use of AI technology, adding that it was being used to fuel “hyper-pornographied slop”, sources at the meeting said.

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• pornographies
• pornographying
• pornographied

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