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pornography |
3 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: pornography n : illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire [syn: {porno}, {porn}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: pornographyStill or moving images, usually of women, in varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who down-load it from {bulletin board systems} or exchange it on {floppy disks}). Much of it is in the form of {GIF} images, or increasingly {JPEG} images. There are even pornographic 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. (1998-07-19)
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