Pornography and eroticism [Wiccan study]
Pornography and eroticism [Wiccan study] Pornography is a term that came to us at the end of the 19th century (first dictionary in 1899 by Cândido de Figueiredo, according to the Houaiss dating) of the French pornographie. This word had been born about a century before, around 1800, initially with a serious meaning: study (of public health) on prostitution. It was in the middle of the 19th century that it began to be used to designate art, especially that produced in antiquity - at first, painting -, which portrayed obscene themes. The root of the French term was planted in Greek, a language that had words like pórne, "prostitute", and pornos, "who prostitutes", in addition to pornographers, "author of writings on prostitution". Preach was porneion. All of these terms contained the idea of trade, buying and selling. There are etymologists who, digging deeper, see in them the Indo-European root per, "to sell", the same that is present in the...