Pornography

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pornography
       n : creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
           literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
           desire [syn: {porno}, {porn}, {erotica}, {smut}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "pornography":
     French literature, Rabelaisianism, Renaissance literature,
     X-rated movie, ancient literature, bawdiness, bawdry,
     belles lettres, blue movie, classics, contemporary literature,
     dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature,
     erotica, erotographomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness,
     folk literature, foulness, humane letters, iconolagny, kitsch,
     letters, lewdness, literature, medieval literature, nastiness,
     national literature, obscene literature, obscenity, offensiveness,
     polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, porn,
     pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania,
     pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, ribaldry,
     salaciousness, salacity, scatological literature, scurrility,
     serious literature, sexploitation, skin flick, smut, smuttiness,
     soft-core pornography, stag film, travel literature,
     underground literature, vileness, wisdom literature
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  pornography
       
           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)