įor the term in horror films, see torture porn. The word pornography was coined from the ancient Greek words πόρνη ( pórnē "prostitute" and πορνεία porneía "prostitution" ), and γράφειν ( gráphein "to write or to record", derived meaning "illustration", as in " graph"), and the suffix -ία ( -ia, meaning "state of", "property of", or "place of"), thus meaning "a written description or illustration of prostitutes or prostitution". No date is known for the first use of the word in Greek the earliest attested, most related word one could find in Greek, is πορνογράφος, pornográphos, i.e. "someone writing about harlots", in the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus. The Modern Greek word pornographia (πορνογραφία) is a reborrowing of the French pornographie. " Pornographie" was in use in the French language during the 1800s. The word did not enter the English language as the familiar word until 1857 or as a French import in New Orleans in 1842.
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