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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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Colleen Marie Applegate (May 30, 1963 – March 23, 1984), known professionally as Shauna Grant, was an American pornographic actress and nude model. During her two-year career, she appeared in over 30 pornographic films, earning up to $100,000. Grant died by suicide after the arrest of her partner in March, 1984. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999. (Full article...)

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Selected work of erotic literature

Cover of the French edition

Story of the Eye (French: Histoire de l'œil) is a 1928 novella written by Georges Bataille as Lord Auch (literally, Lord "to the shithouse" — "auch" being short for "aux chiottes", slang for telling somebody off by sending him to the toilet), that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers, including an early depiction of omorashi fetishism in Western literature. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits. In 1940 an edition of Histoire de l'œil was illustrated by Hans Bellmer. Histoire de l'œil entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. (Full article...)

List of selected works
The Autobiography of a Flea Fifty Shades of Grey 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 1Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
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 3Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 4Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 5Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 6A 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 7Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 8Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 9Example of Erotic photography
Image 10Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 11American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 12Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 13Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 14Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 15Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 16World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 17Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 18Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 19Jessie Andrews
Image 20Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 21Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 22Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 23Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 24Karen McDougal
Image 25Louise Glover
Image 26Lisa Ann
Image 27Rocco Siffredi
Image 28The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 29Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 30Dana DeArmond
Image 31Tila Tequila
Image 32Raylene
Image 33Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 34Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 35Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 36Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 37Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 38Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 39Figure 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 40Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 41Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 42Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 42Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 43Lupe Fuentes
Image 44Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 45Jenna Jameson
Image 46Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 47Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 48Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 49Cindy Margolis
Image 50Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 51Katsuni - French pornographic actress.

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

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... that in 2001, around 64 percent of all films produced in Malayalam were of the soft-porn variety?
... 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 Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
... that Lewes Road in Brighton has a gyratory named after a pornographic cinema?
... 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 1980s were the "age of hole-discovery" in yaoi erotica?