Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pornography"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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