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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

Jameson at the XBIZ Awards 2014

Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), known professionally as Jenna Jameson (/ˈdʒeɪmɪsən/), is an American businesswoman, writer, television personality and former pornographic film actress. She has been named the world's most famous adult entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn".

Jameson started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the "Top Newcomer" award from each of the three major adult movie organizations. She has since won more than 35 adult-video awards, and has been inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame.

Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially, a single website, this business expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. The first such movie, Briana Loves Jenna (with Briana Banks), was named at the 2003 AVN Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title for 2002. By 2005, ClubJenna had revenues of US$30 million with profits estimated at half that. (Full article...)

List of selected articles

Selected work of erotic literature

Title page of the falsely dated "1901" edition (actually published c. 1935)

The Autobiography of a Flea is an anonymous erotic novel first published in 1887 in London by Edward Avery. Later research has revealed that the author was a London lawyer of the time named Stanislas de Rhodes.

The story is narrated by a flea who tells the tale of a beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is taken advantage of by her young lover Charlie, the local priest Father Ambrose, two of his colleagues in holy orders, and her own uncle. Bella is then employed to procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment of both the priests and of her own father.

The book was adapted into a 1976 pornographic film (see § Film adaptation). (Full article...)

List of selected works
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 Kama Sutra Lolita Tropic of Cancer (novel) Josephine Mutzenbacher Tijuana bible Emmanuelle (novel) Sex (book)

Slideshow of selected contemporary images

Image 1Jenna Jameson
Image 2Figure 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 3Jessie Andrews
Image 4Karen McDougal
Image 5Katsuni - French pornographic actress.
Image 6Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 7Tila Tequila
Image 8Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 9Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 10Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 11Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 12Louise Glover
Image 13The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 14Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 15World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 16Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 17American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 18Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 19Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 20Dana DeArmond
Image 21Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 22Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 23Bondage 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 24Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 25Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 26Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 27Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 28Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 29Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 30Lisa Ann
Image 31A 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 32Rocco Siffredi
Image 33Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 34Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 35Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 36Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 37Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 38Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 39Lupe Fuentes
Image 40Cindy Margolis
Image 41Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 42Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 43Raylene
Image 44Example of Erotic photography
Image 45Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 46Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 46Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 47Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 48Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 49Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 50Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 51Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

Did you know (auto-generated) - load new batch

... that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
... that some viewers of an Arizona TV station saw hardcore pornography instead of the Super Bowl?
... 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 Money Shot: The Pornhub Story was described by multiple reviewers as unsalacious?
... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... 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 John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?
... that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence?