The word 'pornographic' comes from the Greek word meaning 'the writing of prostitutes'.
John Cleland's 1748 erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is considered the first original English prose pornography. The publishers were charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."
The 1857 English Obscene Publications Act was the world's first law criminalizing pornography. The Act, which applied to the United Kingdom and Ireland, made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material.
The first American law criminalizing pornography was the Comstock Act of 1873, which made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail.
The actor Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.
In 1969, Denmark became the first country in the world to legalize pornography.
Strip club owner Larry Flynt published the first issue of his pornographic magazine Hustler in July 1974. Although the first few issues went largely unnoticed, within a year the magazine became highly lucrative.
Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter, visited Larry Flynt at a time he was encountering legal problems. Encouraged by her counsel, Flint became a born-again Christian, and began including Christian inspired articles in his Hustler magazines. This angered Christian and religious fundamentalist groups, who were upset at his mixture of the spiritual and profane. However, Flynt renounced his Christian faith after he was shot by a sniper outside a courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and in constant pain.
Every member of the US Congress has been given a free porno magazine every month, since 1983.
Rapper Snoop Dogg wrote, starred in, and created the score for a hardcore porn video "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle" that was shot at his house. The 2001 film was the first hardcore video ever listed on the Billboard music video sales chart.
New York City’s first public WiFi kiosks had to shut off browser access because so many people were using them to watch porn.
A study in Canada on the effects of pornography in 2013 had to be abandoned when researchers could not find any men who had not seen any.
The Los Angeles porn industry requires its actors to get HIV testing every two weeks.
$3,075.64 is being spent on pornography ... every second.
The average age that American children start watching hardcore pornography is 11.
Utah is the largest consumer of paid internet pornography in the United States.
In North Korea viewing pornography or reading the Bible are each punishable by death. Generally execution by firing squad.
There are currently over 24.5 million different pornographic websites on the Internet, which represents approximately 12% of all websites. What’s more, at any given time, approximately 30,000 people are looking at porn. For perspective, porn sites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.
Captive Giant Pandas were shown a video of pandas mating in the wild, in an effort to get them to mate in the female's three-day breeding cycle. When "Yongyong" tried to mount "Ke Lin", she fought him off; but after Ke Lin viewed the "panda pornography," the pair mated successfully.
John Cleland's 1748 erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is considered the first original English prose pornography. The publishers were charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."
The 1857 English Obscene Publications Act was the world's first law criminalizing pornography. The Act, which applied to the United Kingdom and Ireland, made the sale of obscene material a statutory offence, giving the courts power to seize and destroy offending material.
The first American law criminalizing pornography was the Comstock Act of 1873, which made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail.
The actor Willem Dafoe was expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic film.
In 1969, Denmark became the first country in the world to legalize pornography.
Strip club owner Larry Flynt published the first issue of his pornographic magazine Hustler in July 1974. Although the first few issues went largely unnoticed, within a year the magazine became highly lucrative.
Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter, visited Larry Flynt at a time he was encountering legal problems. Encouraged by her counsel, Flint became a born-again Christian, and began including Christian inspired articles in his Hustler magazines. This angered Christian and religious fundamentalist groups, who were upset at his mixture of the spiritual and profane. However, Flynt renounced his Christian faith after he was shot by a sniper outside a courthouse in Lawrenceville, Georgia, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and in constant pain.
Every member of the US Congress has been given a free porno magazine every month, since 1983.
Rapper Snoop Dogg wrote, starred in, and created the score for a hardcore porn video "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle" that was shot at his house. The 2001 film was the first hardcore video ever listed on the Billboard music video sales chart.
New York City’s first public WiFi kiosks had to shut off browser access because so many people were using them to watch porn.
A study in Canada on the effects of pornography in 2013 had to be abandoned when researchers could not find any men who had not seen any.
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The Los Angeles porn industry requires its actors to get HIV testing every two weeks.
$3,075.64 is being spent on pornography ... every second.
The average age that American children start watching hardcore pornography is 11.
Utah is the largest consumer of paid internet pornography in the United States.
In North Korea viewing pornography or reading the Bible are each punishable by death. Generally execution by firing squad.
There are currently over 24.5 million different pornographic websites on the Internet, which represents approximately 12% of all websites. What’s more, at any given time, approximately 30,000 people are looking at porn. For perspective, porn sites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.
Captive Giant Pandas were shown a video of pandas mating in the wild, in an effort to get them to mate in the female's three-day breeding cycle. When "Yongyong" tried to mount "Ke Lin", she fought him off; but after Ke Lin viewed the "panda pornography," the pair mated successfully.
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