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Definition: Pornographic |
PornographicAdjective1. Designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pornographic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. Pornographic films have much in common with other forms of pornography.
Overview
The movie camera has been used for pornography throughout its history, but pornographic movies were for most of that time typically only available by underground distribution, for projection at home or in private clubs.
More permissive legislation permitted the rise of "XXX-rated" movie theaters in the U.S in the 1970s. There was also a proliferation of coin-operated "movie booths" in sex shops that displayed pornographic "loops" (so-called because they projected a movie from film arranged in a continuous loop).
At that time, pornographic movies even approached acceptance into the mainstream movie industry, with films such as Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door and Gerard Damiano's 1972 film The Devil in Miss Jones being shot on film with high production values, and grossing substantial amounts in movie theaters.
With the arrival of the home video cassette recorder in the 1980s, the pornographic movie industry grew massively, allowing people being able not only to view pornography in the privacy of their own home without having to go out to a theater, but also to make their own pornography. Video production is much cheaper than shooting and editing on film, and has thus displaced production on film for almost all pornographic movies.
With the advent of the Internet and DVDs, the production of pornographic movies has become even easier but is still concentrated within a few small companies.
Pornographic movie sub-genres
Current pornographic videos can be divided into a number of types:
Pornographic movies are notable for their extensive use of sequels: a successful new movie will often generate 10 to 50 numbered sequels in essentially the same format.
- Those with some semblance of a story
- "Gonzo" porn, which purports to recruit amateur performers off the street (but does not actually do so, because of the need for HIV testing)
- Those which are simply assemblies of sequences of sex acts
Pornographic movie clichés
There are various subjects that are common in pornographic movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are referred to the jargon of the pornography industry as:
These sex acts are typically presented in a ritualized manner not representative of common sexual behavior and often objectifying one or more of the performers.
- Anal: anal sex is engaged in various positions, equvalent to the various vaginal sex positions.
- double penetration: where a woman is penetrated by two men, one inserts his penis into her vagina the other into her anus.
- Cum Shot or Money Shot: where a man ejaculates onto a woman, usually onto her face, sometimes onto her sex organs
- Gape: a gaping orifice, usually a woman's anus, occasionally a man's anus or a vagina
- A2M: Ass to Mouth, indicates the removal of the penis from the womans anus to be replaced by a second womans mouth (i.e. anal to oral sex)
AIDS and the fetishization of unsafe sex in pornography
With the advent of AIDS, the pornography industry instituted a system of testing for the HIV virus. Often the pornography industry does not depict safer sex: mainstream pornographic movies now depict a range of behaviors including anal sex that are high risk activities for STD transmission, as if the taboo status of these activities has made them more thrilling for the consumers of pornography. Anal sex and other similar activities are now part of heterosexual pornography in a way that was unprecedented before the outbreak of AIDS.
Much more should be written on this topic, which is a psychosexual oddity of some note
See also: sex worker, sex industry
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pornographic movie."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pornography is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal.
Introduction
Pornography may use any of a variety of media — written and spoken text, photos, drawings, moving images (including animation), and sound such as heavy breathing. Pornographic films combine moving images, spoken erotic text and/or other erotic sounds, while magazines often combine photos and written text. And novels and short stories provide written text, sometimes with illustrations.In addition to media, a live performance may be called pornographic.
In its original meaning, pornography was literally "writing about prostitutes." It evolved into writing about anything sexual, especially in a base manner, and grew to include sexually related material of all kinds, both written and graphical. The term pornography is often used with a negative connotation of low quality, as compared to the more esteemed erotica. Euphemisms such as adult film, adult video and adult bookstore are generally preferred within the industry producing these works. Pornography can also be contrasted with ribaldry, which uses sexual titillation in the service of comedy.
Sometimes a distinction is made between softcore pornography and hardcore pornography. The former generally refers to materials which feature nudity and some sexually suggestive scenes, while hard-core or X-rated pornography contains close-ups of genitalia and sexual activities.
Legal situation
The legal status of pornography varies widely. While child pornography is illegal almost everywhere, most countries allow at least some form of pornography. Soft core pornography is usually tame enough to be sold in general stores and (in some countries) to be shown on TV.Most countries attempt to restrict minors' access to hard core materials, so that it is only available in adult bookstores, via mail-order, in some countries over special satellite TV channels, and sometimes in gas stations. Many of these efforts have been rendered moot by the wide availability of internet pornography. Most western countries have some restrictions on pornography involving violence or animals.
There are recurring urban legends of snuff movies, in which murders are filmed for pornographic purposes. Extensive work by law enforcement officials to ascertain the truth of these rumours have been unable to find any such works.
- In 1966 in Denmark, the ban on written pornography was lifted and in 1969, Denmark was the first country in the world to legalise (hard core) picture pornography.
- The Netherlands have the most liberal rules: pornography is sold openly at normal newsstands and material involving animals is legal.
- In Sweden material involving animals is de-facto legal but subject to animal-welfare laws. Porn movies can be viewed beginning at age 15, and there are no age restrictions for magazines.
- In the United States, hard core pornography is legal unless it meets the Miller test of obscenity, which it almost never does. The materials may not be made available to persons under 18 years of age. Some attempts at restricting pornography on the internet have been struck down by the courts; see internet pornography.
- In Australia, regulation of pornography has increased somewhat under the Howard government, but remains reasonably widely available. See censorship in Australia.
- In the United Kingdom, hard core pornography was illegal until 1999.
- Hard pornography remains illegal (but tolerated) in Norway.
- In Japan until the mid-1990s, no genitals could be shown, but there is no taboo regarding sex and violence and also much less general concern about portraying teenagers as sexual beings (this applies to both out-and-out pornography and works dealing with other themes). Until recently, Japanese law prohibited the depiction of pubic hair in depictions of any forms of nudity, whether it be pornographic or not. For example, Japanese editions of men's magazines such as Playboy had to have any photographs visible signs of pubic hair airbrushed out.
- In Singapore pornography is illegal, even Playboy is banned.
- In Republic of Ireland pornography was illegal until the mid-1990s.
Anti-pornography movement
Criticisms of pornography come from two directions: conservative and religious forces, and feminism.Religious conservatives, exemplified by the United States citizen Rev. Jerry Falwell, decry pornography because they see it as immoral; sex is reserved for married couples, and pornography is thought to lead to an overall increase in immoral behavior in society.
In the United States, a 1968 Supreme Court decision which held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes caused Congress to fund and President Lyndon Johnson to appoint a commission to study pornography. The commission's report recommended sex education, funding of research into the effects of pornography, restriction of children's access to pornography, and recommended against any restrictions for adults. The report was widely criticized and rejected by Congress.
In 1983, prosecutors in California tried to use pandering and prostitution state statutes against a producer of and actors in a pornographic movie; the California Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that these statutes do not apply to the production of pornography (People v. Freeman (1988) 46 Cal.3d 41).
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed another commission to study pornography issues. It was headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese and is generally known as the Meese commission. The commission's report, released in 1986, found that pornography is harmful and can lead to violent acts. These findings have been criticized for not reflecting the empirical evidence.
The feminist position on pornography is divided. Some feminists view pornography as a crucial part of the sexual revolution which led to women's liberation, and see conservative views of morality as designed to fortify an oppressive status quo. Other feminists, most vocally Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, see pornography as degradation of women which leads to violence against women. They have attempted to create laws which allow sexually abused and otherwise affected women to sue pornographers in civil court. One such attempt in Indianapolis was struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1986. In a 1992 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the Canadian obscenity law, accepting the feminist argument that the law is intended to create gender equality and prohibits materials that harm women, rather than "immoral" materials. Dworkin herself favors a civil law approach and opposes all criminal pornography prohibitions.
The criticisms of Linda Boreman, who herself worked as a porn actor under the name Linda Lovelace, focus on the exploitative practices of the porn industry, rather than on pornography's societal effects.
Japanese pornography and sex crimes
Feminists have long theorized that there may be a link between pornography, particularly violent pornography, and an increase in sex crime. This theory has relatively little empirical support and indeed Japan, which is noted for violent pornography, has the lowest reported sex crime rate in the industrialized world, which has led some researchers to speculate that an opposite relationship may in fact exist, namely, that wide availability of pornography may reduce crimes by giving potential offenders a socially accepted way of regulating their own sexuality.
Milton Diamond and Ayako Uchiyama write in "Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan" (International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22. 1999) [1]:
That hypothesis is challenged by a recent increase in sex crimes in Japan which, however, parallels an increase in all crimes. Nevertheless, feminists in Japan have blamed the increase on violent pornography and indeed, some sex offenders report having been inspired by themes in commonly available pornography. The counter argument is, of course, that sex offenders will likely use any defense they can to lower their culpability.
- Our findings regarding sex crimes, murder and assault are in keeping with what is also known about general crime rates in Japan regarding burglary, theft and such. Japan has the lowest number of reported rape cases and the highest percentage of arrests and convictions in reported cases of any developed nation. Indeed Japan is known as one of the safest developed countries for women in the world (Clifford, 1980). (...)
- Despite the absence of evidence, the myth persists that an abundance of sexual explicit material invariably leads to an abundance of sexual activity and eventually rape (e.g., Liebert, Neale, & Davison, 1973). Indeed, the data we report and review suggests the opposite. Christensen (1990) argues that to prove that available pornography leads to sex crimes one must at least find a positive temporal correlation between the two. The absence of any positive correlation in our findings, and from results elsewhere, between an increase in available pornography and the incidence of rape or other sex crime, is prima facie evidence that no link exists. But objectivity requires that an additional question be asked: "Does pornography use and availability prevent or reduce sex crime?" Both questions lead to hypotheses that have, over prolonged periods, been tested in Denmark, Sweden, West Germany and now in Japan. Indeed it appears from our data from Japan, as it was evident to Kutchinsky (1994), from research in Europe and Scandinavia, that a large increase in available sexually explicit materials, over many years, has not been correlated with an increase in rape or other sexual crimes. Instead, in Japan a marked decrease in sexual crimes has occurred.
History
Pornography has possibly a very long history. Nude human beings and sexual activities are depicted in some paleolithic art. However it is not certain that the purpose was sexual arousal, the images may have had instead a spiritual significance. There are numerous pornographic paintings on the walls of ruined Roman buildings in Pompeii. One notable example is a brothel in which the various sexual services are advertised in murals above each door. In Pompeii you can also see phalluses (an erect penis and testicles) engraved in the sidewalks, pointing the way to the prostitution and entertainment district, to aid visitors in finding their way (see Erotic art in Pompeii).In the second half of the 20th century, pornography became available in "men's magazines" such as Playboy. These magazines usually featured nude or semi-nude women, sometimes engaging in the act of masturbation. Other magazines evolved into more explicit displays, featuring sexual penetration, lesbianism and homosexuality, group sex, and fetishes.
The movie camera has been used for pornography throughout its history, and with the arrival of the home video cassette recorder the pornographic movie industry grew massively, people being able not only to view pornography in the privacy of their own home without having to go out to a theater, but also to make their own pornography.
Pornographic computer games have also existed almost since the start of the industry.
With the arrival of the Internet, the availability of pornography increased greatly. Many of the most successful internet entrepreneurs are those who operate pornographic internet sites. As well as conventional photographic or video pornography, some sites offer "interactive" video-game-like entertainment. Due to the international character of the Internet, it provides an easy means for consumers of pornography that is illegal in their country to simply acquire such material from sources in another country where it is legal or not prosecuted. See internet pornography.
The almost-zero cost of copying and shipping of digital data boosted the formation of private circles of people swapping pornography. This type of exchange is especially popular for material that is illegal, most notably child pornography.
Pornographic conventions
Pornographic work contains a number of conventions. Mainstream pornography contains sexual interactions between males and females or between females but interaction between males is taboo. In hard core materials, the male always ejaculates outside the woman's body, in full view. Penises are almost always shown fully erect.
Pornography around the globe
The production and distribution of pornography are economic activities of some importance. The exact size of the economy of pornography and the influence that it plays in political circles are matter of controversy.
Pornography in the United States
Main article: Pornography in the United StatesA few large companies operating out of Southern California's San Fernando Valley are responsible for much of the pornography produced in the United States. The distribution of pornography has changed radically after the 1980s with videotape and cable television largely displacing X-rated theaters. Video distribution in turn is in the process of being replaced by DVD (and Internet distribution for niche markets). Distribution of pornography is a large industry which involves major entertainment companies such as AOL-Time Warner (which profits from pornography through its cable channels, and in-room movies provided by hotel chains).
Pornography in the United States tends to feature mostly blonde women with large breasts and buttocks and often with small tattoos or body piercing. Men in pornography tend to be older and heavily muscled. American pornography movies often attempt to promote pornographic stars, and the boxes for video tapes tend to be extremely gaudy. Plot in pornographic movies is often minimal.
Pornography in Europe
European hardcore pornography is dominated by a few pan-European producers and distributors, the most notable of which is the Private organization. Most European countries also have local pornography producers. Both of these compete with imported American pornography.
Women in European pornography typically have a so-called "more natural" look than in American pornography, with less emphasis on breast implants.
Pornography in Asia
The three main producers of pornography in Asia are Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Japan has a large pornography industry which features more natural looking women usually wearing little makeup servicing multiple men who tend to be anonymous. Hong Kong and Thailand produces much print pornography but less video. The men in Thai pornography tend to be younger than in Japanese or American pornography.
Magazines
see also: List of men's magazines
- Playboy (originally only in US, nowadays has editions in many countries)
- Penthouse
- Hustler Magazine (originally only in US, nowadays has editions in many countries)
- Private (Established in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 as the world's first full color hardcore sex magazine)
- Le Ore (Italy), once an ordinary newspaper, in the 1970s had a notable turn in editorial line and represents now the most important title of a wide network of sex related magazines in central Europe.
- Playgirl
Publishers
- Black Lace (books)
- Blue Moon
- Chimera Press
- Nexus Books
- Silver Moon
Erotic authors
- Marquis de Sade
- Anais Nin
- Henry Miller
- List of erotic authors
Famous Movies
- Debbie Does Dallas
- Deep Throat
- The Opening of Misty Beethoven
- The Devil in Miss Jones
- Behind the Green Door
- Girls Gone Wild
Personalities
- Annabel Chong
- Annie Sprinkle
- Asia Carrera
- Ben Dover
- Bob Guccione
- Brande Roderick
- Chloe Verrier
- Danni Ashe
- Hugh Hefner
- Georgina Spelvin
- Ginger Lynn
- Gloria Leonard
- Ilona Staller
- Jenna Jameson
- John Holmes
- John Stagliano
- Karin Schubert
- Larry Flynt
- Linda Lovelace
- Marilyn Chambers
- Moana Pozzi
- Nicci Sterling
- Nina Hartley
- Peter North
- Rocco Siffredi
- Ron Jeremy
- Savannah
- Tera Patrick
- Tiffany Towers
Specialized forms of pornography
- bondage magazines
- spanking magazines
See also
- sex worker
- erotic actor
- list of erotic authors
- slash fiction
External links and references
- Diamond, M. and Uchiyama, A: Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22 (1999). Reports that a significant increase in the availability of pornography in Japan was accompanied by a decrease in sex crimes, in accordance with similar findings in other countries.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pornography."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic. |
The Drama | Western, horse opera; flick; spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pornographic |
| English words defined with "pornographic": child pornography ♦ kiddie porn, kiddy porn ♦ peepshow, pornographically. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pornographic": Mac Playmate. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have pornographic movies in my apartment, and lubricants, and amyl nitrate (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I'll just amuse myself with some pornographic playing cards (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) He also happens to own the largest collection of pornographic art in all of Madrid (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) But if the unthinkable was to happen and I was to lose this election, well, then I could answer that question in almost pornographic detail (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) I'm on tape in my ex-boyfriend's closet, very nude and very pornographic. Where does bottoms fit in on the crisis scale (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pornographic Thriller (1983) | |
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Children | Netherlands | In May a bill submitted by the Justice Minister raised the age at which minors are allowed to act in pornographic movies from 16 to 18, which corresponds to the age requirement in the ILO Convention against the (sexual) exploitation of children, as well as corresponding to the national minimum age for working in the prostitution sector. (references) |
Liechtenstein | In February a revision of the Penal Code entered into force that makes the possession of child pornographic material a statutory offense and extends the statute of limitation for sexual offenses against children. (references) | |
Japan | Since April 1999, operators of pornographic home pages and suppliers of pornographic images have been required to register with local safety commissions and not to offer such pages to persons under the age of 18. According to the National Police Agency, the police arrested 108 persons between January and June for patronizing teenage prostitutes and child pornography, double the number for the same period in 2000. However, teenage prostitution and dating for money continues to be a concern. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | A proxy server blocks material regarded as pornographic or as promoting radical Islamic ideologies. (references) |
Yemen | Customs officials confiscate foreign publications regarded as pornographic or objectionable because of religious or political content. (references) | |
Thailand | The law allows police to restrict or confiscate printed publications and other materials deemed obscene; the interpretation generally is limited to hardcore pornographic material. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | He cited press reports of the May stoning death of an unnamed 35-year-old woman at Evin Prison in Tehran, who was arrested 8 years earlier on charges of appearing in pornographic films. (references) |
Malaysia | On August 23, police killed one man and seized an assortment of weapons, drugs and pornographic materials in Melaka. (references) | |
China | In what some experts have described as an attempt by authorities to tarnish the public image of the democracy movement, officials have accused a number of democracy activists of soliciting prostitutes, distributing pornographic videos, petty theft, or other crimes unrelated to their political activities. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONDURAS | Import restrictions are also imposed on firearms and ammunitions, toxic chemicals, pornographic material, and narcotics. (references) |
Trade | Senegal | Prohibited imports include narcotics, munitions and war ammunition (except collector's items), pornographic publications, and hallucinogenic drugs, except those authorized by the Ministry of Health. (references) |
Armenia | These restrictions include required authorization for weapons, components used in the production of weapons, explosives, nuclear materials, poison, narcotics, strong psychotropic substances, devices for use in opium smoking, and pornographic materials. (references) | |
Travel | Kuwait | No alcohol, pork products, or pornographic materials may be imported into or used in Kuwait. (references) |
Vietnam | Visitors are strongly advised not to have any information on their computers that the authorities of Vietnam might deem pornographic or politically sensitive. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Taiwan | To protect children from the worst forms of exploitation, the authorities have enacted a Child Welfare Law, a Juvenile Welfare Law, and a Child and Juvenile Sexual Transaction Prevention Act to protect children from debt bondage, prostitution, pornographic performances, and other illicit activities specified in ILO Convention 182. The LSL stipulates age 15, after compulsory education required by law ends, as the minimum age for employment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pornographic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pornographic" is used about 183 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 183 | 22,794 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pornographic": pornographic film. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pornographic": semi-pornographic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pornographic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pornografik. (various references) | |
Arabic | إباحي (permissive), داعر (bawdy, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, naughty, obscene, obscenity, raffish, salacious, scarlet, sensual, wanton). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | порнографски (filthy, libidinous, obscene, salacious, sexy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 色情 (pornography), 黃色 (yellow). (various references) | |
Czech | pornografický (blue). (various references) | |
Dutch | pornografisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pornografia. (various references) | |
Finnish | grafinen. (various references) | |
French | pornographique. (various references) | |
German | pornographisch, pornigraphisch. (various references) | |
Greek | πορνογραφικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פור ו'רפי (blue). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trágár (bawdy, dirty, gross, impious, indecent, nasty, obscene, ribald, scurrilous, smutty, swinish), pornográf, szeméremsértő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | cabul (indecent, lewd, obscene). (various references) | |
Italian | pornografico (blue). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | Ｈな " (pornographic film, salacious film), 笑い絵 (comic or pornographic picture), 秘本 (pornographic book, secret book, treasured book), "ニールシート床材 (plastic greenhouse, pornographic magazines sold wrapped in plastic, vinyl paint, vinyl sheet flooring, vinylheaded hammer), 春本 (pornographic book), 好色本 (erotic or pornographic book), 好色文学 (erotic or pornographic literature), インダス文明 (egghead, inch, India paper, Indian, Indian jewellry, Indian summer, Indiana, Indianapolis 500-mile race, Induscivilization, integer, integrate, integrated, integration, Intel, intellectual, intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence test, intelligent, intelligent building, intelligent city, intelligent terminal, intelligentsia, Intelsat, intensity, intensive, intentional, interactive, interior, interior adviser, interior coordinator, interior craft, interior design, interior designer, interline leads, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, Inturist, pornographic videos), エッチな " (etching, hit point, home page, HP, pornographic film, salacious film). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ニボン (pornographic magazines sold wrapped in plastic), しゅ"ぽ" (pornographic book), ひほ" (pornographic book, secret book, treasured book), "うしょくぼ" (erotic or pornographic book), "うしょくぶ"がく (erotic or pornographic literature), わらいえ (comic or pornographic picture), インディーズ"デオ (pornographic videos), エッチなえいが (pornographic film, salacious film). (various references) | |
Manx | pornograafagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ornographicpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pornográfico (porn, ribald). (various references) | |
Romanian | pornografic. (various references) | |
Russian | порнографический (porno). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pornografski (filthy, smutty). (various references) | |
Spanish | pornográfico (blue). (various references) | |
Swedish | pornografisk (blue, curious). (various references) | |
Turkish | pornografik, porno (porn, porno, pornography), müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | порнографічний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khiêu dâm (sexy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pornographic": pornographically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pornographic": antipornographic, semipornographic. (additional references) | |
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"Pornographic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orographic, Panigraphi, pornagraphic, pornografi, pornografie, pornograhic, pornograph, pornographie, pornograpic, pornogrhapic, pornogrphic, pronographic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pornographic" (pronounced pô'rnugra"fik) |
| 8 | -n u g r a" f i k | ethnographic, oceanographic, stenographic. |
| 7 | -u g r a" f i k | calligraphic, choreographic, demographic, epigraphic, geographic, holographic, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, orographic, photographic, stereographic, stratigraphic, topographic. |
| 6 | -g r a" f i k | graphic, micrographic, reprographic. |
| 5 | -r a" f i k | traffic. |
| 3 | -f i k | anthropomorphic, autotrophic, catastrophic, delphic, dimorphic, geostrophic, heterotrophic, hieroglyphic, honorific, horrific, metamorphic, nonspecific, orphic, Pacific, philosophic, polymorphic, prolific, pseudoscientific, scientific, specific, terrific, transpacific, unscientific. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-r" | |
-2 letters: orographic. | |
-4 letters: chapping, charring, chopping, crapping, cropping, parching, picaroon, poaching, pooching, prochain, roaching. | |
-5 letters: aphonic, arching, capping, carping, carrion, chagrin, charing, choragi, choring, chorion, cooping, copping, corpora, craping, graphic, happing, harping, harpoon, hooping, hopping, ochring, organic, parring, pignora, pogonia, pogonip, poohing, pooping, popcorn, porcino, procarp, rapping, roaring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-o-o-p-p-r-r" | |
+4 letters: antipornographic, phonocardiograph, pornographically, semipornographic. | |
+5 letters: phonocardiographs, phonocardiography. | |
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