The word pornography, derived from the ancient Greek pornē and graphos, means “writing about whores.” Pornē means “whore,” …Graphos means “writing, etching, or drawing.”Andrea Dworkin, in Amelia Jones’ The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, 2003.
The word pornography does not mean “writing about sex” or “depictions of the erotic” or “depictions of sexual acts” or “depictions of nude bodies” or “sexual representations” or any other such euphemism. …
Contemporary pornography strictly and literally conforms to the word’s root meaning…. The word has not changed its meaning and the genre is not misnamed. The only change in the meaning of the word is with respect to its second part, graphos: now there are cameras ….
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