pornography

(pôr-nŏgˈrə-fē)

1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
2. The presentation or production of this material.
3. Lurid or sensational material: “Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the … pornography of the era” (Morris Dickstein).

Related Forms:

• por·nogˈra·pher noun

• porˌno·graphˈic (pôrˌnə-grăfˈĭk) adjective

• porˌno·graphˈi·cal·ly adverb