pornography
/pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature.
Uncountable
noun
The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Many websites have a complete ban on pornography."
- "1929, D. H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity, pamphlet, republished in 1998, Michael Herbert (editor), D. H. Lawrence: Selected Critical Writings, Oxford University Press, page 294, What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another."
- "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.""
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
- British English: /pɔːˈnɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
child pornography
hardcore pornography
porn star
problematic pornography use
reality pornography
softcore pornography
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