Pornography: alternatives and connections

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Pornography

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

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The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Smut 92% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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