pornography
The lengthy list includes alcohol, tobacco, pork products and media or entertainment considered immoral, such as pornography .
A Louisville man was sentenced last Thursday in federal court to 97 months in prison for receiving child pornography .
He was arrested following execution of the warrant and charged with one count of possession of child pornography .
Randy Dunbar: Why was there such a large gay audience if there was gay pornography ?
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What is pornography.
For many people, any attempt to define the word pornography calls to mind the oft-quoted line from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964: “. I know it when I see it.†While compilers of dictionaries might wish to be granted such latitude in explaining the meaning of certain words, they are held to a higher standard. Pornography. which has been used in English since the middle of the 19th century, comes from the Greek pornographos (“writing about prostitutesâ€), and initially referred to visual or written matter designed to cause sexual arousal, a meaning that is still the most common one employed today. Pornography has taken on an additional, non-sexualized, sense: one that refers to a depiction of sensational material (such as violence) in order to elicit a reaction. The phrase “pornography of violence,†for example, began to be used in the early 1950s.
Origin and Etymology of pornography
Greek pornographos. adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornē prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey — more at fare. carve