pornography: material or media produced commercially and consisting of a wide variety of sexually suggestive to explict representations as in writings and visually graphic depictions (especially pictures, motion pictures and videos). Pornography may have sexuoerotically facilitating or arousing effects, offensive, disgusting, inhibitory and sexuoerotically disarousing effects, or a neutral effect sexuoerotically on the perceiver dependent upon the materials' congruence, dyscongruence, or non-congruence with the specifications of one's lovemap. The term is inaccurately used to describe sexually explicit materials of a nature that are legally or by custom classified as forbidden.
See also erotic;
erotography,
obscenity.
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