Pornography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: For films, use "pornographic films"670 __ |a Am. heritage dict. |b (porn, also porno: slang: pornography) 670 __ |a Oxford English dictionary online, Jan. 5, 2009 |b (pornography: the explicit description or exhibition of sexual subjects or activity in literature, painting, films, etc., in a manner intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic feelings; printed or visual material containing this) 670 __ |a Random House college dictionary, c1980 |b (pornography: obscene literature, art, or photography, esp. that having little or no artistic merit) 670 __ |a Webster’s new collegiate dictionary, c1977 |b (pornography: 1. the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement. 2. material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement)
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
SMUT: Rising Tide of Pornographic Books, Magazines, and Films Threatens to Swamp America, 1968
Item
Scope and Contents
Reprinting of four San Diego Union articles by Robert Betts regarding pornograpy: "Smut Panel Report Awaited"; "Pornography On Campus Becomes Political Weapon"; "Subversion Through Smut Seen Communists' Aim"; and "Bills To Curb Obscenity Reflect Growing Alarm."
Dates:
Publication: 1968