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'''Cartoon''' pornography depicts illustrated or animated fictional characters in erotic and sexual situations. | |||
'''Classics''' (sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age of Porn") are pornographic films from the 1970s and sometimes 1980s. | '''Classics''' (sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age of Porn") are pornographic films from the 1970s and sometimes 1980s. | ||
'''Compilations''' are a collection of pornographic scenes, usually themed to a particular fetish, taken from otherwise unrelated films. (For copyright reasons, compilations are often limited to clips from films published by a single company.) | '''Compilations''' are a collection of pornographic scenes, usually themed to a particular fetish, taken from otherwise unrelated films. (For copyright reasons, compilations are often limited to clips from films published by a single company.) | ||
'''Extreme''' pornography is a term introduced by the UK Government, describing a classification of adult pornography that has become illegal to possess under new laws. The law applies to pornography (defined as an image "of such a nature that it must reasonably be assumed to have been produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal") which is "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays "in an explicit and realistic way" any of the following: | |||
* An act threatening a person's life | |||
* An act which results (or is likely to result) in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals | |||
* An act which involves (or appears to involve) sexual interference with a human corpse | |||
* A person performing (or appearing to perform) an act of intercourse (or oral sex) with a Non-Human animal (whether dead or alive) and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that any such person (or animal) was real. | |||
'''Full-feature pornographic films''' are typically longer in running time and usually have a plot. | '''Full-feature pornographic films''' are typically longer in running time and usually have a plot. | ||
'''Independent''' pornography is pornography produced by filmmakers unconnected to the major porn studios in a given country. It is often | '''Hentai''' is the various forms of Japanese pornography, including H-manga, H-anime, and H-computer games. The term hentai is never used in this context in Japanese. The meaning of hentai is "perversion", "abnormality", or "metamorphosis". Yaoi is anime or manga that features gay males (although not necessarily pornographic). Yuri is the lesbian equivalent. | ||
Japanese | |||
'''Independent''' pornography is pornography produced by filmmakers unconnected to the major porn studios in a given country. It is often mis-labelled "amateur pornography", though the producers and actors are often professional pornographic filmmakers and actors. (It is not always easy to distinguish between genuine amateurs and unknown professionals: often, the distinction is a matter of timing.) | |||
'''Interactive''' pornography, available in CD-ROM and DVD format, allows the viewer to select the particular acts performed at any one time, sometimes with the camera providing a first person view. | |||
'''Japanese Adult Video''' or JAV is pornography produced in Japan for domestic consumption, though it has a large international audience as well. JAV has a number of features that place it in a unique genre when compared to pornography produced in other countries. Notably, because of Japanese obscenity laws, most Japanese pornography videos and photographs include a "mosaic" that blocks the view of the performers' genitalia. Uncensored JAV is also produced, though illegally. JAV has a diverse array of subgenres, many of which are the same as the subgenres in general pornography; however, there are also fetish and costume genres that are largely unique to the JAV milieu. | |||
'''Parody Porn''' is a subgenre that parodies mainstream film or television show using sexual puns. | |||
'''Vintage''' erotica is generally pre-1970s pornography, especially early-20th-century black-and-white photographs and stag films. | '''Vintage''' erotica is generally pre-1970s pornography, especially early-20th-century black-and-white photographs and stag films. | ||
''' | '''Virtual Reality''' Pornography provides an interactive digitally-generated immersive erotic | ||
experience, often side-by-side stereoscopic content shown from a participants point-of-view (POV). | |||
'''Women's Pornography''' sometimes referred to as Pro-Sex, Sex Positive Pornography, or Feminist Pornography - refers to a category of porn that is expressly produced for female customers, taking into account that male and female receptive and aesthetic needs may differ widely. Sometimes that involves, that the director and/or producer are women. Frequently, there is a focus on certain dos and don'ts for the production process (behind the scenes and on-screen) and the actions portrayed. | '''Women's Pornography''' sometimes referred to as Pro-Sex, Sex Positive Pornography, or Feminist Pornography - refers to a category of porn that is expressly produced for female customers, taking into account that male and female receptive and aesthetic needs may differ widely. Sometimes that involves, that the director and/or producer are women. Frequently, there is a focus on certain dos and don'ts for the production process (behind the scenes and on-screen) and the actions portrayed. | ||