pornographicadj.

1852 Museum Classical Antiq. Mar. 47 A pornographic painting of a Satyr discovering a sleeping Bacchante, or Hermaphrodite.

1880 Guardian 27 Oct. 1450 The excesses of the [French] press designated as ‘pornographic’..have..become such as to compel the authorities to adopt strong measures against them.

1881 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy ii. xiv. 365 Pornographic Pamphleteers and Poets.

1894 W. T. Stead If Christ came to Chicago 117 Two booksellers..whose windows still contain a large and varied collection of pornographic literature.

1928 Daily Express 30 July 3/3 You send us films of sexational novels and pornographic plays, which our censors cut to pieces.

1936 E. A. Powell Aerial Odyssey xiii. 189 Lecherous, furtive-eyed specimens of humanity who whiningly importune one to buy pornographic photographs or postcards.

1971 ‘R. Allen’ Suedehead iii, in Compl. Richard Allen (1992) I. 115 Matson was now perched on the apex of an expanding pornographic empire.

1996 D. Brimson & E. Brimson Everywhere we Go iii. 43 The excitement is almost pornographic to me, I just have to peek through the fence, see the pitch and see the terraces.