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por·nog·ra·phy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pôr-ngr-f)
n.
Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
The presentation or production of this material.
Lurid or sensational material: ?Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the... pornography of the era? (Morris Dickstein).
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[French pornographie, from pornographe, pornographer, from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes : porn, prostitute; see per-5 in Indo-European Roots + graphein, to write; see -graphy.]
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por·nogra·pher n.
porno·graphic (pôrn-grfk) adj.
porno·graphi·cal·ly adv.
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Main Entry: por·nog·ra·phy
Pronunciation: por-'nä-gr&-fE
Function: noun
: material that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement
NOTE: Pornographic material is protected expression unless it is determined to be obscene. However, child pornography is illegal under federal and state laws prohibiting the depiction of minors in sexual acts. ?por·nog·ra·pher /por-'nä-gr&-f&r/ noun ?por·no·graph·ic /"por-n&-'gra-fik/ adjective ?por·no·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
pornography
\Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a harlot + -graphy.] 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.
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
pornography
n : illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire [syn: porno, porn]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
pornography
<application> Still or moving images, usually of women, in
varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts
with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say
it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who
down-load it from the World-Wide Web or exchange it on
floppy disks). Most of it is in the form of JPEG images.
There are many sites on the World-Wide Web offering porn of
all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that
these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology
and techniques for the web. Advertisments for them certainly
constitute a significant proportion of all spam. There are
even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac
Playmate.
Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have
strict rules against their computers and networks being used
to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted.
(2002-03-08)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2004 Denis Howe