pornology

English

Etymology

From porno- +‎ -logy.

Noun

pornology (uncountable)

1. Explicit writing about sex.
   • 2011, Frida Beckman, Deleuze and Sex‎^[1]:

     Or, in this instance, between theology in its Scholastic and univocal mode as derived by Deleuze initially from the anti-Thomism of Duns Scotus, and what he elsewhere describes in relation to the writings of de Sade and Masoch and Klossowski as pornology, as symptomology through the writing of sex? Are we perhaps dealing less with a pornology as such, however, than a pornotheology?

Usage notes

This term is used to distinguish sexually explicit writing, which describes the sex act and sexual perversions, from other sexually explicit writing, which is often considered to be pornography.

Derived terms

• pornological

Translations

Translations

• French: pornologie f