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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. Made for the 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...)
Selected article
Selected work of erotic literature
Josephine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself (German: Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt) is an erotic novel first published anonymously in Vienna, Austria, in 1906. The novel is famous in the German-speaking world, having been in print in both German and English for over 100 years and sold over 3 million copies, becoming an erotic bestseller.
Although no author claimed responsibility for the work, it was originally attributed to either Felix Salten or Arthur Schnitzler by the librarians at the University of Vienna. Today, critics, scholars, academics and the Austrian Government designate Salten as the sole author of the "pornographic classic". In 2022, a stylometric analysis showed that Felix Salten is the most probable author of the novel, the final pages excluded.
The original novel uses the specific local dialect of Vienna of that time in dialogues and is therefore used as a rare source of this dialect for linguists. It also describes, to some extent, the social and economic conditions of the lower class of that time. The novel has been translated into English, Swedish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Dutch, and Japanese among others, and been the subject of numerous films, theater productions, parodies, and university courses, as well as two sequels. (Full article...)Slideshow of selected contemporary images
- Image 1Cindy Margolis
- Image 2The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
- Image 3Louise Glover
- Image 4Tila Tequila
- Image 5Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
- Image 6Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
- Image 9Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
- Image 10Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
- Image 11Jessie Andrews
- Image 12Bondage 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 13Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
- Image 14Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
- Image 15Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
- Image 16Example of Erotic photography
- Image 18World map showing laws of general pornography
- Image 20Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
- Image 22Audrey Hollander - American porn star
- Image 23Jenna Jameson
- Image 24Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
- Image 25Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
- Image 28Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
- Image 29Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
- Image 30Lupe Fuentes
- Image 31American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
- Image 32Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
- Image 33Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
- Image 34Rocco Siffredi
- Image 35Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
- Image 38Karen McDougal
- Image 40Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
- Image 41Raylene
- Image 42Lisa Ann
- Image 43A 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 44Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
- Image 45Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
- Image 46Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
- Image 47Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
- Image 48Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
- Image 49Figure 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 50Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
- Image 51Dana DeArmond
Slideshow of selected historical images
- Image 3Miniature from 15th century Persian book
- Image 4Traditional pederastic courtship scene on an Athenian black-figure amphora from the 5th century B.C.
- Image 5Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii - Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
- Image 6Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
- Image 8Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi.
- Image 9Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, Martin van Maële (1905)
- Image 11Erotic art, India, 18th century
- Image 12The Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculpture
- Image 14Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 15Nineteenth century nude photograph.
- Image 16Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
- Image 17Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 18Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
- Image 22Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
- Image 23Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
- Image 24Nights of Horror, panel by Joe Shuster (public domain)
- Image 25Erotic art, 18th century India
- Image 30Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho
- Image 32Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Did you know (auto-generated) - load new batch
- ... that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence?
- ... 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 zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
- ... that the 1980s were the "age of hole-discovery" in yaoi erotica?
- ... that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety?
- ... that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas, pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
- ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
- ... that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
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