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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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Pink film (ピンク映画, Pinku eiga) refers in Japan to movies produced by independent studios that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. Many pink films would be analogous to erotic thrillers, e.g. Fatal Attraction, Fifty Shades of Grey, Basic Instinct, 9½ Weeks.

Independent studios that release pink films include OP Eiga, Shintōhō Eiga, Kokuei and Xces. The phrase 'pink film' came into use after the major Toei began advertising some of its movies as 'porno' in 1971, and other major Nikkatsu switched to producing only Roman Porno films later that year.

Until the early 2000s, they were almost exclusively shot on 35 mm film. Recently, filmmakers have increasingly used video (while retaining their emphasis on soft-core narrative). Many theaters swapped 35mm for video projectors and began relying on old videos to meet the demand of triple-feature showings. (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 1Daisy Marie posing with a fan at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 2Dean Flynn and Chi Chi LaRue
Image 3Xaviera Hollander, author and former Sex worker
Image 4Sean Michaels - pornographic actor.
Image 5Swedish/Tanzanian Playmate of the Year Ida Ljungqvist
Image 6Playmate of the Year and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Pamela Anderson, signing DVDs at the USS Halsey
Image 7Tila Tequila
Image 8Rocco Siffredi
Image 9Erotic actress and public health advocate Sharon Mitchell.
Image 10Pornographic actor and director Miles Long (submitted by self)
Image 11Carmen Luvana, Adult Entertainment Expo 2008
Image 12A 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 13Penthouse Pet Dani Daniels, wearing Penthouse key necklace
Image 14World map showing laws of general pornography
Image 15Cindy Margolis
Image 16Hentai Manga, Japan
Image 17Valentina Nappi at the AVN Awards Show, Las Vegas, Nevada on 21 January 2017
Image 18Francois Sagat, Folsom Street Fair
Image 19Pierre Woodman filming in Australia
Image 20Hentai style of art, originally from Japan
Image 21Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway

Image 21Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Haugesund harbour, Norway
Image 22The COLT Studio Group, San Francisco
Image 23Louise Glover
Image 24Raylene
Image 25Karen McDougal
Image 26Pornographic actress and cosplayer Tanya Tate as She-Ra
Image 27Playmate of the_Year Corinna Harney
Image 28Playboy Playmate Alison Waite
Image 29Transsexual pornographic actress Erica Andrews
Image 30Example of Erotic photography
Image 31Joanna Jet - transsexual pornographic actress and director
Image 32Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood
Image 33Shy Love at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2012
Image 34Pornographic DVDs, Japan, "Kawaii" section
Image 35Lisa Ann
Image 36Bondage 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 37Jessie Andrews
Image 38Dana DeArmond
Image 39Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair
Image 40Silvia Saint, wearing a Bomis tee-shirt (a site previously run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia).
Image 41Michele_Merkin - Glamour photography
Image 42Pornographic film set. Pictured from left to right: Cali Chase, Mikey Butders, and a photographer identified as "Nicole."
Image 43Rebeca Linares at AVN Adult Entertainment Expo 2009
Image 44American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. One of top Porn Stars of All Time.
Image 45Jenna Jameson
Image 46Michael Lucas, Nonie, Rafael Alencar, David Shankbone, and Ernesta Alamirano in Fire Island Pines
Image 47Audrey Hollander - American porn star
Image 48Hugh Hefner with Karissa Shannon, Dasha Astafieva, and Kristina Shannon
Image 49Figure 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 50Lupe Fuentes
Image 51Katsuni - French pornographic actress.

Slideshow of selected historical images

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

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... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
... 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 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 women were 33 percent more likely than men to search for clown pornography on Pornhub in 2016?
... that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence?
... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... that John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut was the bestselling pornographic film of 1994 and had the most rentals that year in the United States?