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[Craig Sanders]

it's OK to have your own private definitions but when you're making
conversation, it's better to use common, shared definitions so that
you're not talking at cross-purposes.


$ dict erotica

 From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  erotica
      n : creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
          literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
          desire [syn: {pornography}, {porno}, {porn}, {smut}]

 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  erotica
  
     {pornography}


$ dict pornography

 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pornography \Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a harlot + -graphy.]
     1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the
        painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms
        devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures,
        videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual
        arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the
        content of such materials.
        [PJC]

 From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  pornography
      n : creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
          literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
          desire [syn: {porno}, {porn}, {erotica}, {smut}]

  
$ dict porn

 From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  porn
      n : creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
          literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
          desire [syn: {pornography}, {porno}, {erotica}, {smut}]

  

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

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"I am against religion because it teaches us to
 be satisfied with not understanding the world."
             [Richard Dawkins]