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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 depicting a bukkake

Bukkake (Japanese: ぶっかけ, [bɯkkake] ^ⓘ; English: /bʊˈkɑːkeɪ, bʊˈkɑːki/ buu-KAH-kay, buu-KAH-key or English: /bʊˈkækeɪ/ buu-KAK-ay) is a sex act in which one participant is ejaculated on by multiple participants. It is often portrayed in pornographic films. Bukkake videos are a relatively prevalent niche in contemporary pornographic films. Originating in Japan in the 1980s, the genre subsequently spread to North America and Europe, and crossed over into gay pornography. (Full article...)

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Selected work of erotic literature

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It became the first installment in the Fifty Shades novel series that follows the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It contains explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism).

Originally self-published as an ebook and print-on-demand in June 2011, the publishing rights to Fifty Shades of Grey were acquired by Vintage Books in March 2012, topping best-seller lists around the world. It has been translated into 52 languages and set a record as the fastest-selling paperback of all time in the United Kingdom. Critical reception of the book, however, has tended towards the negative, with the quality of its prose generally seen as poor, while its portrayal of BDSM has been targeted for criticism from a variety of perspectives. Universal Pictures and Focus Features produced an American film adaptation, which was released on 13 February 2015, and was also panned upon release, though it was a box office success.

The second and third volumes of the original trilogy, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, were published in 2012. The trilogy had sold over 150 million copies worldwide by October 2017. A version of the novel from Christian's point of view, Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, was published in June 2015 as the fourth book, followed by Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian in November 2017 and Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian in June 2021. (Full article...)

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The Autobiography of a Flea Story of the Eye Story of O Fanny Hill Jin Ping Mei Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 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 1The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 2Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 3Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 4Figure 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 5Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 6Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 7Cindy Margolis
Image 8Lupe Fuentes
Image 9Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 10World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 11Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 12American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 13Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 14Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 15Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 16Rocco Siffredi
Image 17Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 18Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 18Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 19Bondage 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 20Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 21Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 22Louise Glover
Image 23Jessie Andrews
Image 24Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 25Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 26Jenna Jameson
Image 27Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 28Raylene
Image 29Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 30Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 31Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 32Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 33Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 34Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 35Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 36Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 37Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 38Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 39Lisa Ann
Image 40Tila Tequila
Image 41Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 42Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 43Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 44Dana DeArmond
Image 45Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 46Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 47Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 48Example of Erotic photography
Image 49Karen McDougal
Image 50A 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 51Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

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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 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 Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
... 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 the Japanese male–male romance magazine June was originally pitched to its publisher as a "mildly pornographic magazine for women"?
... that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?