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Definition of porn
1 informal : pornography watching porn —often used before another noun a porn star the porn industry a porno theater
2porno plural pornos informal : a pornographic movie … the ex-silent starlet whose voice, unfit for sound-film consumption, relegated her to pornos … — John Simon
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Recent Examples of porn from the Web
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In 2013, revenge porn was made a crime under the California Penal Code.
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The goal seems to be to slut shame Chyna and expose her body online — in other words, this could be revenge porn.
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Magisterial District Judge Michael R. Muth, 66, whose office is located about 38 miles southeast of Scranton in East Stroudsburg, allegedly was viewing porn when clerks on different occasions walked in him.
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An East Hampton man was arrested on child porn charges after someone found suspected child pornography at his former address, police said.
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Even better, porn blogs on Tumblr are often curated by bloggers whose aesthetic users trust.
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Recent articles in the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung have detailed the difficult choices that Facebook faces regarding whether to delete posts containing graphic violence, child abuse, revenge porn and self-mutilation.
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Four of those five averaged 112 images while the fifth one had 4,688 child porn images and 31 videos.
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The interrogations that Winston undergoes in the play’s second half are graphic enough to verge on torture porn.
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First Known Use of porn
1962
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