pornological

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pornology +‎ -ical.

Adjective[edit]

pornological (not comparable)

  1. (of language) Describing the sex act and sexual perversions.
    • 2014, Kimberley J. Devlin, Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions[1]:
      The suspect impetus behind Stephen's recurrent desire for confession becomes clearest when it expresses itself as an urge to write pornological letters, intended not for a forgiving priest, of course, but for an innocent and unsuspecting girl
    • 2015, Monica Ingber, The Politics of Conflict: Transubstantiatory Violence in Iraq, →ISBN:
      His literary analysis of Masoch and Sade served to demonstrate not only the difference between both authors, but it also helped to identify and extract the pornological language that characterizes their respective works.