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Introduction

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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...)

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Pink film (ピンク映画, Pinku eiga) refers in Japan to movies produced by independent studios that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. Many pink films would be analogous to erotic thrillers, e.g. Fatal Attraction, Fifty Shades of Grey, Basic Instinct, 9½ Weeks.

Independent studios that release pink films include OP Eiga, Shintōhō Eiga, Kokuei and Xces. The phrase 'pink film' came into use after the major Toei began advertising some of its movies as 'porno' in 1971, and other major Nikkatsu switched to producing only Roman Porno films later that year.

Until the early 2000s, they were almost exclusively shot on 35 mm film. Recently, filmmakers have increasingly used video (while retaining their emphasis on soft-core narrative). Many theaters swapped 35mm for video projectors and began relying on old videos to meet the demand of triple-feature showings. (Full article...)

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Selected work of erotic literature

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.

Ada began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra." In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. Ada was initially given a mixed reception. However, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted scholar Alfred Appel called it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous," and said that it "provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce." (Full article...)

List of selected works
The Autobiography of a Flea Fifty Shades of Grey Story of the Eye Story of O Fanny Hill Jin Ping Mei Lady Chatterley's Lover The Songs of Bilitis The 120 Days of Sodom Kama Sutra Lolita Tropic of Cancer (novel) Josephine Mutzenbacher Tijuana bible Emmanuelle (novel) Sex (book)

Slideshow of selected contemporary images

Image 1Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 2Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 3Rocco Siffredi
Image 4Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 5Louise Glover
Image 6Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 7Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 8Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 9Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 10Jenna Jameson
Image 11Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 12Tila Tequila
Image 13Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 14Jessie Andrews
Image 15The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 16Lisa Ann
Image 17World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 18Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 19Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 20Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 21Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 22A 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 23Karen McDougal
Image 24Cindy Margolis
Image 25Example of Erotic photography
Image 26Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 27Figure 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 28Dana DeArmond
Image 29Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 30Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 31Bondage 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 32Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 33Lupe Fuentes
Image 34Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 35Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 36Raylene
Image 37Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 38American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 39Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 40Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 41Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 42Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 43Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 44Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 45Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 46Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 47Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 48Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 49Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 49Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 50Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 51Pierre Woodman filming in Australia

Slideshow of selected historical images

Image 1Erotic art, 18th century India
Image 2A Mercury Priapus figure from Pompeii, ancient Rome
Image 3The Venus of Willendorf prehistoric sculpture
Image 4Johann Nepomuk Geiger, watercolor, 1840
Image 5The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai.
Image 6Two Lovers, by Reza Abbasi.
Image 7Indian Princess, by Richard Borrmeister [de] (1888?)
Image 8Miniature from 15th century Persian book
Image 9Illustration from Juliette by the Marquis de Sade.
Image 10Nights of Horror, panel by Joe Shuster (public domain)
Image 11Hokusai, Untamed Lion, From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 12Katsushika Hokusai, "The Adonis Plant (Fukujusô)" Woodblock, ca. 1815, Japan Shunga
Image 13Nineteenth century nude photograph.
Image 14Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 15Roman oil lamp portraying intercourse
Image 16Hadrian engaging in anal sex with Antinous in Egypt, portrayed by Édouard-Henri Avril.
Image 17Erotic art, India, 18th century
Image 18Shunga, Japan (ca 1750)
Image 19Cunnilingus portrayed at Pompeii - Source: John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Image 20Illustration from La Grande Danse macabre des vifs, Martin van Maële (1905)
Image 21Classical Greek Bas Relief showing "Cowgirl" position
Image 22A rape scene by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca.1797-1861).
Image 23Silenus and maenad. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 480 BC. From Vulci, ancient Greece
Image 24Erotic detail from the Vishwanath temple at the Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Image 25Traditional pederastic courtship scene on an Athenian black-figure amphora from the 5th century B.C.
Image 26Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho
Image 27Hokusai, Untitled (Plate No. 4) From the series Picture Book Patterns of Couples (Ehon tsui no hinagata), c. 1812
Image 28Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, India, taken by User:Ggia
Image 29Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 30Kama Sutra illustration (19th century?)
Image 31Erotic scene. Rim of an Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC., ancient Greece
Image 32Erotic engraving supposedly after Agostino Carracci (1557–1602)

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... that a pornographic screenplay about Jesus led to papal and royal condemnations, a firebombing, the writer's ban from the UK, and thousands of letters per week demanding the ban of a non-existent gay Jesus film?
... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
... that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
... that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
... that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
... that Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?