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pornology

pornology noun: explicit writing about sex.

Noun

pornology (uncountable)

  1. Explicit writing about sex.
    • Or, in this instance, between theology in its Scholastic and univocal mode as derived by Deleuze initially from the anti-Thomism of Duns Scotus, and what he elsewhere describes in relation to the writings of de Sade and Masoch and Klossowski as pornology, as symptomology through the writing of sex?...2011, Frida Beckman, Deleuze and Sex

Origin of pornology

From porno- + -logy.

Words formed from pornology

Questions about pornology

What does pornology mean?
Pornology means explicit writing about sex.
What part of speech is pornology?
Pornology is a noun.

Words near pornology in the dictionary

  1. pornoholic
  2. pornoholics
  3. pornoisseur
  4. pornoisseurs
  5. pornological
  6. pornology
  7. pornomania
  8. pornomaniac
  9. pornomaniacs
  10. pornonormative
  11. pornonormativity

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