porno-, porn- +

The written description of the life, manners, etc., of prostitutes and their patrons; usually including, the expression or suggestion of obscene literature or art.

1. A person who makes or sells pornography.
2. Someone who writes about prostitutes or obscene matters; a portrayer of obscene subjects.
3. Somebody who produces pictures, movies, or written materials that show or describe sexual acts or naked people for the purpose of exciting people sexually; usually to make money from the immoral desires of those who lust for sexual gratification.
4. Anyone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of community mores.

A reference to the literary treatment of prostitutes and obscene writing.

Anyone who engages in writing about prostitution, prostitutes, and their obscene activities.

1. A compulsion to write obscene letters.
2. An abnormal interest in pornography.

1. Description of the life, manners, etc., of prostitutes and their patrons; hence, the expression or suggestion of obscene or unchaste subjects in literature or art; pornographic literature or art.
2. Also qualified by "hard" or "soft core" to denote pornography of a more, or less, obscene kind.
3. Erotica which some people perceive, or consider, as "obscene".
4. Etymology: "description of prostitutes", from French pornographie, from Greek pornographos "(one) writing of prostitutes"; from porne, "prostitute"; originally "bought, purchased" (with an original notion, probably of "a female slave sold for prostitution".

The main modern meaning "salacious writing" or "pictures" represents a slight shift from the etymology, although the classical depictions of prostitution usually had this characteristic.

Writing about prostitutes or, perhaps, by them for advertising their services

Pornography is Greek for "writing of prostitutes"; the term may have derived from the signs hung outside Greek brothels.

Such writing is divided into erotica, which generally centers on "normal" heterosexual love making, describing it in detail; and exotica, centering on so-called "abnormal sex", including sadism, masochism, and fetishism.

The term, pornography, has thrived in English only since the late 18th century. It was first recorded in 1860, and authors of it since have been as varied as de Sade, Swinburne, and Mark Twain.

Porneius was a character in Greek legend who was called "fornication personified", a good description, since his name comes from the Greek porneia, "fornication".

He was the son of Anagnus, "inchastity"; two of his brothers being Maechus, "adultery", and Aselges, "lasciviousness".

Porneius tried to rape Parthenia, "maidenly chastity", after whom the Parthenon (Temple of the Maiden) was named, but the "martial maid" killed him with her spear.

Another source of information about the word "pornography"

Pornography etymologically denotes the "depiction of prostitutes"; and indeed Webster's Dictionary, 1864, defined the word as "licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies examples of which occur in Pompeii."

A pathological attraction or desire for prostitutes and lewd and prurient pictures or writing, or a dependence on them for sexual arousal.

Interest in pornography; also, suggestive in speech, etc.

Someone who has a special interest in pornography.

1. The study of pornographic materials or prostitutional activities.
2. Literature which, while it may not be directly lurid or erotic and may purport to be serious and scholarly; nevertheless sets out to persuade people that they may justifiably engage in certain kinds of sexual activity which, in point of fact, are contrary to the "objective moral order" of certain churches.

1. A craze for pornography on a global scale which apparently is the reason why there is so much money being made by producers of this form of diversion.
2. An obsession with pornography.

A lover of or attraction to pornography.

Having a horror or hatred of prostitutes and pronography.

1. A male prostitute.
2. A person given to base, vile behavior.

A prostitute who is in the age range of 70 to 79 years old.