Portal:Erotica and pornography
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. Intended for 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
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
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage (French: Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after its manuscript was rediscovered. It describes the activities of four wealthy libertine Frenchmen who spend four months seeking the ultimate sexual gratification through orgies, sealing themselves in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest with 12 accomplices, 20 designated victims and 10 servants. Four aging prostitutes relate stories of their most memorable clients whose sexual practices involved 600 "passions" including coprophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, rape, and child sexual abuse. The stories inspire the libertines to engage in acts of increasing violence leading to the torture and murder of their victims, most of whom are adolescents and young women.
The novel only survives in draft form. Its introduction and first part were written according to Sade's detailed plan, but the subsequent three parts are mostly in the form of notes. Sade wrote it in secrecy while imprisoned in the Bastille. When the fortress was stormed by revolutionaries on 14 July 1789, Sade believed the manuscript had been lost. However, it had been found and preserved without his knowledge and was eventually published in a restricted edition in 1904 for its scientific interest to sexologists. The novel was banned as pornographic in France and English speaking countries before becoming more widely available in commercial editions in the 1960s. It was published in the prestigious French Pléiade edition in 1990 and a new English translation was published as a Penguin Classic in 2016.
The novel attracted increasing critical interest after World War II. In 1957, Georges Bataille said it "towers above all other books in that it represents man's fundamental desire for freedom that he is obliged to contain and keep quiet." Critical opinion, however, remains divided. Neil Schaeffer calls it "one of the most radical, one of the most important novels ever written," whereas for Laurence Louis Bongie it is "an unending mire of permuted depravities." (Full article...)Slideshow of selected contemporary images
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Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
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Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
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Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
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Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
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Alison Waite
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Bondage 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.
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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.A
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Miles Long (submitted by self)Pornographic actor and director
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Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
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Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
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Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
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Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
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Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
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Audrey Hollander - American porn star
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Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
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Katsuni- French pornographic actress.
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Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, NorwaySculpture of
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Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
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World map showing laws of general pornography
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Claire Sinclair
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TheCOLT Studio Group, San Francisco
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Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklacePenthouse Pet
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American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
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United States Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General, August 4, 1986Figure 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,
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Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
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Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
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Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
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Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
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Swedish/TanzanianPlaymate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
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Fire Island Pines
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Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
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Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
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Kawaii" sectionPornographic DVDs, Japan, "
Slideshow of selected historical images
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Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho
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Joe Shuster (public domain)Nights of Horror, panel by
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Vishwanath temple at the Khajuraho Group of MonumentsErotic detail from the
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Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
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watercolor, 1840
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Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
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Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculptureThe
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Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
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Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
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Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
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Martin van Maële (1905)Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs,
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Nineteenth centurynude photograph.
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Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
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Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
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Katsushika Hokusai, "The Adonis Plant (Fukujusô)" Woodblock, ca. 1815, Japan Shunga
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rape scene by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca.1797-1861).A
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Richard Borrmeister (1888?)Indian Princess, by
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Juliette by the Marquis de Sade.Illustration from
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Miniature from 15th century Persian book
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Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
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Erotic art, India, 18th century
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Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, India, taken by User:Ggia
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Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii - Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
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ClassicalBas Reliefshowing "Cowgirl" position
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- ... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
- ... that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
- ... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
- ... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?
- ... that Koh Masaki was one of the first gay pornographic film actors in Japan to openly appear in adult films without obscuring his identity?
- ... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
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