pornography

Noun

Meaning

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

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

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That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. Tom Clancy

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. Norman Mailer

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. Andrea Dworkin

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. Andrea Dworkin

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. Gloria Steinem

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. Henry Miller

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