URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105008
• info:lc/authorities/sh85105008
• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85105008#concept

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Topic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Subject Headings

Collection Membership(s)

• LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
• LCSH Collection - General Collection
• LCSH Collection - May Subdivide Geographically

Variants

• Literature, Immoral
• Porn
• Porno

Broader Terms

• Sex-oriented businesses

Narrower Terms

• Child pornography
• Children and pornography
• Gay pornography
• Internet pornography
• Lesbian pornography
• Libraries--Special collections--Pornography
• Pornographic comic books, strips, etc.
• Pornographic films
• Post-pornography
• Telephone sex

Related Terms

• Erotica

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• pornografia
• Pornographie
• Pornographie
• pornography Label from public data source Wikidata
• Pornography

Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes

• Pornography--Aesthetics
• Pornography--Bibliography
• Pornography--Bibliography--Methodology
• Pornography--Censorship
• Pornography--Collectors and collecting
• Pornography--Government policy
• Pornography--Marketing
• Pornography--Moral and ethical aspects
• Pornography--Political aspects
• Pornography--Psychological aspects
• Pornography--Public opinion
• Pornography--U.S. states

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

Alternate Formats

• RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML

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