Pornography

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105008
- info:lc/authorities/sh85105008
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85105008#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Literature, Immoral
- Porn
- Porno
Broader Terms
- Sex-oriented businesses
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
- Erotica
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12647536c
- http://content.glin.gov/subjectTerm/254
Earlier Established Forms
- Literature, Immoral
Sources
- found: Am. heritage dict. (porn, also porno: slang: pornography)
- found: Oxford English dictionary online, Jan. 5, 2009 (pornography: the explicit description or exhibition of sexual subjects or activity in literature, painting, films, etc., in a manner intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic feelings; printed or visual material containing this)
- found: Random House college dictionary, c1980 (pornography: obscene literature, art, or photography, esp. that having little or no artistic merit)
- found: Webster's new collegiate dictionary, c1977 (pornography: 1. the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement. 2. material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement)
LC Classification
- HQ471-HQ472
- NX650.E7
Change Notes
- 2000-09-18: new
- 2009-01-28: revised

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