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Introduction
Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material "such as a picture, video, or text" that is intended for sexual arousal. Intended for consumption by adults, pornography depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to virtual reality presentations. A general distinction of adult content is made classifying it as pornography or erotica.
The oldest artifacts considered pornographic were discovered in Germany in 2008 CE and are dated to be at least 35,000 years old. Throughout the history of erotic depictions various people made attempts to suppress them under obscenity laws, censor, or make them illegal. Such grounds and even the definition of pornography have differed in various historical, cultural, and national contexts. The Indian Sanskrit text Kama Sutra (3rd century CE) contained prose, poetry, and illustrations regarding sexual behavior, and the book was celebrated; while the British English text Fanny Hill (1748), considered "the first original English prose pornography," has been one of the most prosecuted and banned books. In the late 19th century, a film by Thomas Edison that depicted a kiss was denounced as obscene in the United States, whereas Eugène Pirou's 1896 film Bedtime for the Bride was received very favorably in France. Starting from the mid-twentieth century on, societal attitudes towards sexuality became more lenient in the Western world where legal definitions of obscenity were made limited. In 1969, Blue Movie became the first film to depict unsimulated sex that received a wide theatrical release in the United States. This was followed by the "Golden Age of Porn" (1969–1984). The introduction of home video and the World Wide Web in the late 20th century led to global growth in the pornography business. Beginning in the 21st century, greater access to the Internet and affordable smartphones made pornography more mainstream. (Full article...)
Erotica is literature or art that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use any artistic form to depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, drama, film or music. Erotic literature and erotic photography have become genres in their own right. Erotica also exists in a number of subgenres including gay, lesbian, women's, bondage, monster and tentacle erotica.
The term erotica is derived from the feminine form of the ancient Greek adjective: ἐρωτικός (erōtikós), from ἔρως (érōs)—words used to indicate lust, and sexual love. (Full article...)
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Pornographic magazines or erotic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines or sex magazines, are magazines that contain content of an explicitly sexual nature. Publications of this kind may contain images of attractive naked subjects, as is the case in softcore pornography, and, in the usual case of hardcore pornography, depictions of masturbation, oral, manual, vaginal, or anal sex.
They primarily serve to stimulate sexual arousal and are often used as an aid to masturbation. Some magazines are general in their content, while others may be more specific and focus on a particular pornographic niche, part of the anatomy, or model characteristics. Examples include Asian Babes which focuses on Asian women, or Leg Show which concentrates on women's legs. Well-known adult magazines include Playboy, Penthouse, Playgirl, and Hustler. Magazines may also carry articles on topics including cars, humor, science, computers, culture, and politics. With the continued progression of print media to digital, retailers have also had to adapt. Software such as Apple's discontinued Newsstand enabled the downloading and displaying of digital versions of magazines but did not allow pornographic material. However, there are specific digital newsstands for pornographic magazines. (Full article...)Selected work of erotic literature
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage (French: Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after its manuscript was rediscovered. It describes the activities of four wealthy libertine Frenchmen who spend four months seeking the ultimate sexual gratification through orgies, sealing themselves in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest with 12 accomplices, 20 designated victims and 10 servants. Four aging prostitutes relate stories of their most memorable clients whose sexual practices involved 600 "passions" including coprophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, rape, and child sexual abuse. The stories inspire the libertines to engage in acts of increasing violence leading to the torture and murder of their victims, most of whom are adolescents and young women.
The novel only survives in draft form. Its introduction and first part were written according to Sade's detailed plan, but the subsequent three parts are mostly in the form of notes. Sade wrote it in secrecy while imprisoned in the Bastille. When the fortress was stormed by revolutionaries on 14 July 1789, Sade believed the manuscript had been lost. However, it had been found and preserved without his knowledge and was eventually published in a restricted edition in 1904 for its scientific interest to sexologists. The novel was banned as pornographic in France and English speaking countries before becoming more widely available in commercial editions in the 1960s. It was published in the prestigious French Pléiade edition in 1990 and a new English translation was published as a Penguin Classic in 2016.
The novel attracted increasing critical interest after World War II. In 1957, Georges Bataille said it "towers above all other books in that it represents man's fundamental desire for freedom that he is obliged to contain and keep quiet." Critical opinion, however, remains divided. Neil Schaeffer calls it "one of the most radical, one of the most important novels ever written," whereas for Laurence Louis Bongie it is "an unending mire of permuted depravities." (Full article...)Slideshow of selected contemporary images
- Image 1Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
- Image 2Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
- Image 4Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
- Image 5The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
- Image 6Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
- Image 7Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
- Image 8Audrey Hollander - American porn star
- Image 10Cindy Margolis
- Image 11Tila Tequila
- Image 15Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
- Image 16Figure 12 in Zillmann, Dolf: "Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography", included in the Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Pornography and Public Health, United States Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, August 4, 1986
- Image 18Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
- Image 19Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
- Image 20Rocco Siffredi
- Image 21Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
- Image 22Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
- Image 23American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
- Image 24Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
- Image 25Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
- Image 26Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
- Image 28Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
- Image 29Jessie Andrews
- Image 30Karen McDougal
- Image 32Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
- Image 34Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
- Image 35Lupe Fuentes
- Image 36Lisa Ann
- Image 37Raylene
- Image 38Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
- Image 39Louise Glover
- Image 40Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
- Image 41Jenna Jameson
- Image 42Example of Erotic photography
- Image 43World map showing laws of general pornography
- Image 44Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
- Image 45Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
- Image 46Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
- Image 48Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
- Image 49Bondage pornography, showing classic "wrist to ankle" rope hogtie. Other bondage methods depicted are breast bondage, elbow bondage, head to ankle tie, knees tied, and a crotch rope. Model is also wearing a muzzle gag.
- Image 50A Fluffer hands gay porn performers Jake Starr (seated) and Erik Grant (lying) items needed for a scene in the 2008 Lucas Entertainment production Pounding the Pavement.
- Image 51Dana DeArmond
Slideshow of selected historical images
- Image 1Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
- Image 2Traditional pederastic courtship scene on an Athenian black-figure amphora from the 5th century B.C.
- Image 4Erotic art, 18th century India
- Image 7Erotic art, India, 18th century
- Image 9Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 10Nights of Horror, panel by Joe Shuster (public domain)
- Image 12Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 13Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi.
- Image 14Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho
- Image 18Miniature from 15th century Persian book
- Image 19The Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculpture
- Image 20Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, Martin van Maële (1905)
- Image 21Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii - Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
- Image 22Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
- Image 24Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 25Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
- Image 27Nineteenth century nude photograph.
- Image 28Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
- Image 31Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
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- ... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
- ... that the 1980s were the "age of hole-discovery" in yaoi erotica?
- ... that Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?
- ... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
- ... that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
- ... that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Davy's on the Road Again" after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band's keyboardist?
- ... that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
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