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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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Selected article

McDougal in 2011

Karen McDougal (born March 23, 1971) is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year in 1998, and for her alleged 9-month-long affair with Donald Trump before he became president. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted McDougal the runner-up of "The sexiest Playmate of the 1990s."

McDougal taught pre-kindergarten before winning a swimwear competition that launched her career as a glamour, promotional, and swimsuit model. Since her appearances in Playboy, she extended her career into a wide variety of appearances in mainstream media, including other magazine modeling, television commercials, and minor acting, with mixed success. She has been a successful fitness model, with multiple magazine appearances, including as the first female cover figure on Men's Fitness magazine. She also starred in The Arena, a 2001 direct-to-video film, and inspired the creation of a fantasy art statuette and a doll.

McDougal is a fitness enthusiast, having studied ballet in her youth and engaged in high school sports. She is also an avid motorcycle and car collector. Since her Playmate days, she has maintained a largely private social life. The revelation of an affair with Donald Trump from 2006 to 2007, and its subsequent coverup, put her into national headlines before and after the 2016 United States presidential election. (Full article...)

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Selected work of erotic literature

Two folios from a palm leaf manuscript of the Kamasutra text (Sanskrit, Devanagari script)

The Kama Sutra (/ˈkɑːmə ˈsuːtrə/; Sanskrit: कामसूत्र, pronunciation, Kāma-sūtra; lit. 'Principles of Love') is an ancient Indian Hindu Sanskrit texton sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. Attributed to Vātsyāyana, the Kamasutra is neither exclusively nor predominantly a sex manual on sex positions, but rather a guide on the art of living well, the nature of love, finding partners, maintaining sex life, and other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties. It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that have survived into the modern era with different bhāṣyas (commentaries). The text is a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses.

Kamasutra acknowledges the Hindu concept of purusharthas, and lists desire, sexuality, and emotional fulfillment as one of the proper goals of life. It discussed methods for courtship, training in the arts to be socially engaging, finding a partner, flirting, maintaining power in a married life, when and how to commit adultery, sexual positions, and other topics. The text majorly dealt with the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad.

The text is one of many Indian texts on Kama Shastra. It is a much-translated work in Indian and non-Indian languages, and has influenced many secondary texts that followed since the 4th-century CE, as well as the Indian arts as exemplified by the pervasive presence of Kama-related reliefs and sculpture in old Hindu temples. Of these, the Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the surviving temple, one in Rajasthan has all the major chapters and sexual positions sculpted to illustrate the Kamasutra. (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 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Lady Chatterley's Lover The Songs of Bilitis The 120 Days of Sodom Lolita Tropic of Cancer (novel) Josephine Mutzenbacher Tijuana bible Emmanuelle (novel) Sex (book)

Slideshow of selected contemporary images

Image 1Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 2A 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 3Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 4Dana DeArmond
Image 5The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 6Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 7Raylene
Image 8Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 9Karen McDougal
Image 10Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 11American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 12Lupe Fuentes
Image 13Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 14Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 15Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 16Bondage 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 17Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 18Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 19Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 20Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 21Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 22Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 23Tila Tequila
Image 24Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 25Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 25Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 26Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 27Cindy Margolis
Image 28Jessie Andrews
Image 29Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 30Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 31Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 32Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 33Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 34Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 35Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 36Figure 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 37Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 38Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 39Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 40Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 41Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 42Jenna Jameson
Image 43Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 44Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 45Example of Erotic photography
Image 46Lisa Ann
Image 47Louise Glover
Image 48World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 49Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 50Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 51Rocco Siffredi

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

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... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
... that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
... that the Japanese male–male romance magazine June was originally pitched to its publisher as a "mildly pornographic magazine for women"?
... that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
... that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?
... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?