Porn - The real definiton. How many of you know it?

[eroswebmaster]

porn

n : illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno]

Alot of you youngsters here throw the term porn around a lot sometimes I do to, but I doubt you understand it's real meaning.

This is why people try to impress upon you to call yourself adult webmasters, etc....because porn by and large is illegal.

This is why those old 70's print movies had stories to them, while it was bad acting it was necessary in order to show good faith in providing something with artistic merit and not just a five minute fuck reel reserved for glory hole encounters in your local adult bookstore.

Anyway...discuss...debate do whatever the catch phrase all the cool guys are saying this week.

[Jace]

Main Entry: por·nog·ra·phy
Pronunciation: -fE
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornE prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey -- more at FARE, CARVE
1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement
3 : the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction <the pornography of violence>
- por·no·graph·ic /"por-n&-'gra-fik/ adjective
- por·no·graph·i·cal·ly /-fi-k(&-)lE/ adverb

from merriam webster

[Jace]

from dictionary.com

6 entries found for pornography.
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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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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

[Shok]

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[Paul Waters]

pornography: noun; erotic material someone is trying to suppress

[MrIzzz]

porn does not exist...its merely a mirage

[CDSmith]

The definition of the word "porn" has changed and evolved over the years, as have the community standard of tolerance for it. (at least in most modern countries)

People in general used to consider the very mild publications like Playboy as pornographic...... but nowadays people (again, in general) think of the more hardcore depictions as being porn, and the softer stuff as being simple nudity.

I no longer think the word 'illegal' is directly associated with the term "porn" (by and large thanks to the awareness the internet has wrought). I believe the word 'illegal' is now more associated with "obscene, obscenity, child porn" etc. Porn is just.... well, porn.