ポルノ
解説 Definition
性的興奮を主な目的として、性的行為や身体を露骨に描いた画像・映像・文章などを指します。通常は不可算名詞で、porn より形式的な語です。
Pornography is material, such as images, videos, or writing, that explicitly depicts sexual acts or bodies and is primarily intended to cause sexual arousal. It is generally treated as an uncountable noun and is more formal than the shortened word porn.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pornography は性的興奮を目的とする露骨な画像・映像・文章を指す形式的な不可算名詞。porn より硬い語で、pornographic は形容詞になる。語尾の -graphy は「書く・記録する」に関係し、photography や geography と共通する。芸術的・文学的な erotica とは目的や露骨さのニュアンスが異なる。
Break pornography into porno- and -graphy. The second part comes from a Greek element meaning “writing” or “representation,” also seen in photography and geography. In modern English, pornography is the formal, usually uncountable noun for sexually explicit material intended mainly to produce arousal; porn is its shorter, less formal equivalent. Connect it with the adjective pornographic, as in pornographic material. Do not automatically equate it with erotica: erotica often suggests artistic or literary sexual content, whereas pornography more strongly emphasizes explicit depiction and sexual stimulation, though judgments about the boundary can vary.
例文
The website was criticized for hosting pornography.
そのウェブサイトはポルノを掲載しているとして批判されました。
The researchers studied attitudes toward pornography.
研究者たちはポルノに対する意識を調査しました。
This website does not allow pornography.
このウェブサイトではポルノの掲載を認めていません。
pornography の類義語・関連語
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pornography の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ギリシャ語 pornē（娼婦）+ graphein（書く）の合成語。pornē は pernēmi（売る）から派生し「身を売る者」が原義。19世紀に「性的描写物」の学術用語として英語に入った。関連語: graphic, geography（同じ -graphy 系）。
Pornography was formed from Greek pornē, “prostitute,” and graphia, “writing or description,” from graphein, “to write.” Pornē is traditionally connected with pernēmi, “to sell,” reflecting the historical idea of a person sold or offering sexual services. The term entered nineteenth-century European scholarly usage for writings or representations concerning prostitution and later broadened to mean sexually explicit material. The shortened form porn and the adjective pornographic developed from the same modern word family.
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