pornographer

English

Etymology

From pornography +‎ -er or porno- +‎ -grapher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔː(ɹ)ˈnɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

pornographer (plural pornographers)

  1. One who is involved in the creation or dissemination of pornography. [from mid-19th c.]
    • 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 112:
      Clearly, if pornographers could still use the name without any sexual connotation in the late-nineteenth century, it is likely that many conventional writers in this period were completely unaware that fanny carried a sexual meaning.
    • 2022 February 2, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 February 2022:
      The real-life cast of characters grew to include bikers, gamblers, a brutal money lender named Butchie (Andrew Dice Clay) and assorted bottom feeders like Gauthier’s accomplice Milton Ingley (Nick Offerman), a pornographer in the San Fernando Valley.

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