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Introduction

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Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) is sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to modern virtual reality presentations. A general distinction of adults-only sexual content is made-classifying it as pornography or erotica.

The oldest artifacts considered pornographic were discovered in Germany in 2008 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 by Andy Warhol 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 art, literature or photography 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, monster, tentacle erotica and bondage 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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An illustration by Seedfeeder of an oral cum shot, in which a man ejaculates onto a woman's tongue

A cum shot is the depiction of human ejaculation, especially onto another person. The term is usually applied to depictions occurring in pornographic films, photographs, and magazines. Unlike ejaculation in non-pornographic sex, cum shots typically involve ejaculation outside the receiver's body, allowing the viewer to see the ejaculation in progress. Facial cum shots (or "facials") are regularly portrayed in pornographic films and videos, often as a way to close a scene. Cum shots may also depict ejaculation onto another performer's body, such as on the genitals, buttocks, chest or tongue.

The term is typically used by the cinematographer within the narrative framework of a pornographic film, and, since the 1970s, it has become a leitmotif of the hardcore genre. Two exceptions are softcore pornography, in which penetration is not explicitly shown, and "couples erotica", which may involve penetration but is typically filmed in a more discreet manner intended to be romantic or educational rather than graphic. Softcore pornography that does not contain ejaculation sequences is produced both to respond to a demand by some consumers for less-explicit pornographic material and to comply with government regulations or cable company rules that may disallow depictions of ejaculation. Cum shots typically do not appear in "girl-girl" scenes (female ejaculation scenes exist, but are relatively uncommon); orgasm is instead implied by utterances, cinematic conventions, or body movement.

Cum shots have become the object of fetish genres like bukkake, in which the cum shot replaces the sex act completely. (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...)

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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 1Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 2Bondage 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 3Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 4Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 5Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 6Jenna Jameson
Image 7Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 8Lupe Fuentes
Image 9Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 10Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 11World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 12Jessie Andrews
Image 13Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 14Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 14Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 15A 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 16Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 17Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 18Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 19Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 20Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 21Karen McDougal
Image 22Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 23Rocco Siffredi
Image 24Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 25Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 26Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 27Lisa Ann
Image 28Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 29Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 30Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 31Figure 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 32Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 33Raylene
Image 34Cindy Margolis
Image 35The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 36Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 37Louise Glover
Image 38Dana DeArmond
Image 39Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 40Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 41Tila Tequila
Image 42Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 43Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 44Example of Erotic photography
Image 45Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 46Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 47Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 48Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 49Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 50American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 51Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

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... 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 the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence?
... that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
... that later pressings of the soundtrack of the soft porn film The Stud replaced Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Davy's on the Road Again" after a journalist blabbed its presence to the band's keyboardist?
... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?