pornography
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PORNOGRAPHY
Name given to any sexual literature somebody is trying to suppress. Most normal people enjoy looking at sex books and reading sex fantasies, which is why abnormal people have to spend so much time and money suppressing them. The only drawback of the commercial stuff is that because it is based on fantasy, and often inexperienced fantasy at that, it's not much help with sex practice for real lovers. Depiction of any the range of sex behaviour we've described helps people to visualize them, which is why this book is illustrated. Commercial porno stories, however, tend to be dull, repetitive, and a strain on credulity. Frankly antisocial fantasies about torture and so on worry legislators and other for fear they might induce idiots to imitate them, though it's equally possible that by enabling not very bright people to fantasize their unacceptable needs vividly, they help to keep them from acting them out, but we continue to lack good enough evidence to settle the matter one way or another.
Straight couples can use "pornography" constructively in the exact proportion that it's well done, i.e. it describes feasible, acceptable and pleasurable sex activities they'd enjoy, or fantasies which, though not feasible, turn them on. This is what literature in general does...