pornographer

English

Etymology

From pornography +‎ -er or porno- +‎ -grapher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔː(ɹ)ˈnɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

pornographer (plural pornographers)

1. One who is involved in the creation or dissemination of pornography. [from mid-19th c.]
   • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 112:

     Clearly, if pornographers could still use the name without any sexual connotation in the late-nineteenth century, it is likely that many conventional writers in this period were completely unaware that fanny carried a sexual meaning.

   • 2022 February 2, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 February 2022:

     The real-life cast of characters grew to include bikers, gamblers, a brutal money lender named Butchie (Andrew Dice Clay) and assorted bottom feeders like Gauthier’s accomplice Milton Ingley (Nick Offerman), a pornographer in the San Fernando Valley.

Synonyms

• pornographist

Derived terms

• antipornographer

Related terms

• porn

• porn star

• porno
• pornographic

• pornographically

• pornography
• pornosexual

Translations

person involved in creation or dissemination of pornography

• Armenian: պոռնոգրաֆիա նկարող (poṙnografia nkaroġ)
• Aromanian: purnugraf m
• Basque: pornografo
• Bengali: পর্নোগ্রাফার (pornōgraphar)
• Bulgarian: порнограф m (pornograf)
• Catalan: pornògraf (ca) m, pornista m or f (informal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 色情文學作家 / 色情文学作家

• Czech: pornograf m
• Danish: pornograf (da) c
• Dutch: pornograaf (nl)
• Finnish: pornotuottaja (producer); pornonäyttelijä (fi) (actor); pornotyöläinen, pornoammattilainen (unspecified)
• French: pornographe (fr) m or f
• Galician: pornógrafo (gl) m, pornógrafa f
• German: Pornograph (de) m (Pornograf m), Pornographin f
• Greek: πορνογράφος (el) m (pornográfos)
• Hungarian: pornográf író, trágár író, szeméremsértő író
• Icelandic: klámritahöfundur m (writer)
• Irish: pornagrafaí m
• Italian: pornografo (it) m, pornografa f
• Japanese: 官能小説家 (kannōshōsetsuka)
• Latvian: pornogrāfs m
• Lithuanian: pornografas m
• Macedonian: порногра́ф m (pornográf)
• Norwegian: pornograf m
• Polish: pornograf m
• Portuguese: pornógrafo (pt) m, pornógrafa (pt) f
• Romanian: pornograf (ro) m, pornografă f
• Russian: изготови́тель порнографии (izgotovítelʹ pornografii) (producer), распространитель порнографии (rasprostranitelʹ pornografii) (dealer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Arabic: پۉرنۉغرآف m

  Cyrillic: порно̀граф m

  Latin: pornògraf (sh) m

• Slovene: pornográf m
• Spanish: pornógrafo m, pornógrafa f
• Swedish: pornograf c, porrförläggare c (publisher)