pornography

pornography englannista suomeksi

1. pornografia

0. Substantiivi

1. pornografia

pornography englanniksi

1. The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature. (defdate)

(ux)

2. 1929, (w), ''Pornography and Obscenity'', pamphlet, republished in 1998, Michael Herbert (editor), ''D. H. Lawrence: Selected Critical Writings'', (w), page 294,

(quote)

3. (quote-book)Certainly, the pornographies which circulate among us include some directed specifically at women — not just the pornography of emotions on which Mills and Boon romances capitalise so successfully, nor even religious pornography like Colleen McCullough's ''The thorn birds'' (1977), which offers Roman Catholic women the vicarious thrills of sexual relations with a priest — but precisely the kind of pornography that in some feminist criticism is assumed to be for men only.

4. (quote-book)

5. The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction.

6. (RQ:Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow)

7. The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something.

8. (quote-journal), |text=In ''The Four Pillars of Wisdom'', he devotes a well-deserved chapter to the financial press and its weakness for "financial pornography"—lurid coverage of star money managers.