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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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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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The interrogations that Winston undergoes in the play’s second half are graphic enough to verge on torture porn.
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Nat Bailen, who manufactured a peep show machine for cartoons, started to sell his units to sex-shop owners who used them for porn.
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The idea that porn prevented him from killing women was a self-serving delusion that justified his impulse to write and draw portrayals of torture.
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Unbeknownest to her, Meza, who was five years older, was leading the double life of a porn actor and prostitute, picking up gay men on escort websites.
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Starnet had started life as a porn-site operator before moving into online gambling, tapping its video expertise to livestream horse races, for example.
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Just about every search that is looking for violent porn is roughly twice as common among women than men.
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First Known Use of porn
1962
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