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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:

San Diego Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 36), 1969-09-25

 Item
Scope and Contents "Bag of Beads" [police]; "Letter"; "Sex for the Senile"; "Encounter: A Program at Humanist House"; "Bum Information on L.A. Free Press"; "Vice-President's Daughter Caught with Marijuana [Eleanor Kimberly Agnew]; "Just Waitin'"; "Abortion" [excerpted from summary of AAAL (Abolish All Abortion Laws)]; "White Panther Party 10 Point Platform -- Revised"; "High Schoolers Read" [Selective Service Act]; "Tom Smothers to Talk at ACLU"; "Coercion and Confrontation"; "Peace & Freedom Party; "Big...
Dates: Publication: 1969-09-25