the.com/pornography
Material depicting sexual activity intended primarily to arouse, raising ongoing debates about ethics and consent.
means Material depicting sexual activity or nudity whose primary purpose is to arouse, not to inform or move the plot along.
from Built from Greek pornē, 'prostitute,' and graphein, 'to write or depict' — so literally 'writing about prostitutes.' The word entered English in the 1800s, coined to describe ancient art and writings cataloguers wanted to flag as obscene without saying so bluntly — a scholarly fig leaf before it became the plain, unblushing term we use now.
- etymology
- greek for writing about prostitutes
- legal test
- supreme court said it knows it when it sees it
- internet traffic
- once estimated at a third of all web traffic
- first photos
- nude daguerreotypes existed within years of the camera