porno-, porn- +
(Greek: harlot, prostitute, whore)
Originally, porno meant, "bought, purchased, exported, sold". Prostitutes in ancient Greece were often victims of the slave trade.
According to Ernest Klein, in his Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dicionary of the English Language, "The Greek element originally meant 'bought, purchased', and is related to another Greek word that meant, 'I sell', properly, 'I give for equal value.' "
Agapornis
A genus of parrots; literally, "bird of love".
oneiropornism
Fantasizing about sex or prostitutes while dreaming.
philopornism
A love or special fondness for prostitutes.
philopornist
Someone who loves or has a special fondness for prostitutes.
porn, porny
1. Relating to pornography; that is, the porn industry, a porn star.
2. Pertaining to or dealing in pornography; pornographic: porn shops.
3. A reference to erotica, filth, smut (pornographic film); adult movie, blue movie, dirty movie, X-rated movie, skin flick , stag movie.
pornechoric
Spread (as disease) by prostitutes.
porneia
1. Behavior associated with prostitution.
2. Sexual immorality.
3. Sexual impurity.
4. Violation of certain holiness taboos with regard to types of marital and sexual connections.
Porneia is a term frequently discussed in English primarily because of its use in the New Testament, where it appears twenty-five times. Following are two key usages of the term in the New Testament:
1. Porneia was the only legitimate ground for divorce recognized by Jesus (see Matthew 5:32 and 19:9).
2. According to the Council of Jerusalem, porneia was understood to be prohibited not only to Jews but also to Gentiles turning to God (Acts 15:20, 29).
pornephilia
A fondness for or benevolent attitude toward prostitutes.
pornerastic
1. Fond of prostitutes.
2. Lecherous; unchaste; licentious; bawdy; lewd.
porno
1. A creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desires.
2. Pictures, movies, or writing that show or describe sexual acts or naked people for the purpose of exciting people sexually, and usually for no other purpose.
3. Indecent language or publications; obscenity.
pornocracy
1. Dominating influence of harlots or prostitutes: specifically, the government of Rome during the first half of the tenth century.
2. A government controlled and/or run by prostitutes.
A government by profligate women; specifically, the ascendancy of a profligate noblewoman named Theodora and her daughter in Rome early in the 10th century.
pornocrat
A prostitute who is a ruler or head of a government.
pornogenarian
Morally "dirty" (sexually vulgar) old people.
pornogenitone
The son of a prostitute.
pornogenitore
A child resulting from a relationship with a prostitute.
Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units:
aphrodi-;
-cest-;
eroto-;
lagneuo-;
-lagnia;
masochism;
Sadism-;
satyr-;
sex-;
sodom-;
whore.
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