grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia +

A device for taking an outline at the foot and an imprint of the sole.

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 specialist in the description of rivers.

The physiography (an account or description) of rivers; potamology.

1. A collection of biographical sketches used by social and political historians studying a particular historical period.
2. A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters, or people, within a specific historical, social, or literary context

Radiography of the prostate.

A first or original writing.

An instrument for recording the beginning or first trace of an earthquake shock.

The process and instrument for recording the beginning or first trace of an earthquake shock.

A machine for the automatic recording of votes.