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pornographic

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1
as in adult
dealing in or with explicitly sexual material opposition to a pornographic bookstore opening in the neighborhood

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as in obscene
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society the store kept all of its pornographic DVDs locked up, thus ensuring that they would be accessible only to adults

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