The History Of Pornography

Long, long ago and far, far away....... porn appeared in the early days of human history. Researchers discovered rock paintings demonstrating sex acts between ancient people together with petrogliphs showing people hunting. It is not clear if it was pornorgraphy or not, but these drawings could not be considered erotic as they were done in a primitive manner.To tell the truth, little has changed since then, and people still can not tell the difference between pornography and erotica, to tell what is acceptable for public demonstration and what is not.
Some of the first documented porn pictures were printed in oriental sex manuals, Kama Sutra being the most popular. The Hindu people feared that the paper works would not stand the test of time and so decorated the temples of Kajuharo with bas-reliefs of people having sex.

The word “porn” meaning “indecent pictures” or “depiction of whores” came from Greeks who painted such frescos on the walls of their many brothels and bath houses. The pictures were a wonderful way of advertising for women who sold their love to Greeks for money.Christianity prohibited depicting anything but saints within several centuries, this fact changed neither the quality nor the quantity of sex services. The art of porn flourished in the Renaissance when Rafael’s apprentice Julio Romano quarreled with Pope Clemens VII. In revenge, the artist painted an entire hall in the Vatican with porn frescos. The frescos gave rise to a terrible scandal that spread about the whole of Europe. Before the scandalous frescos were removed some crafty painters made gravures of them. This is how porn spread about Europe, the spreading was even more successful thanks to the technological progress.

At the end of the 18th century France was the leading country regarding the spread of porn pictures. Porn then became an element of playing-cards, posters, post cards and so on. Today, the porn pictures of that time seem to be rather chaste. To many people at the time those pictures were scandalous, and campaigns against porn pictures started in the 19th century. People caught spreading porn were brought to court and were obliged to pay fines. Many writers – Flaubert, Zola and Baudelaire – that are considered classical writers today were at that time brought to court on the charges of spreading elements of "porn" in their works. It was because of the same reason that books by Joyce, Henry Miller and Nabokov’s Lolita were declared as prohibited.

The year of 1972 was a breakthrough for the American cinematography. Producer Gerard Damiano made his film The Deep Throat about a woman complaining to her doctor that she felt no satisfaction when having sex. This doctor explained that woman had their clitoris's in their throat. This film has fifteen particular scenes of oral sex. It took the producer six days to make the film; he and the actors worked for pennies. It made Gerard's whole team very popular. It still holds the world marketing record for its costs to income ratio. That was also the opening of the Golden Era of Porn actively promoted hippies in the 60's and 70's . Pornographers were reputed as dissidents fighting for the freedom of self-expression and helped society become sexually educated. This is one of the few instances when the high aims brought about really high incomes.By the mid-1980s, the Golden Era of Porn came to an close.

The most popular porn stars had appeared in hundreds of porn films or even became porn directors and producers. By the mid-1990s, it was popular to invite fashion models to appear in porn films and use hi-tech equipment while making the films. On the threshold of the millennium a great number of porn films appeared making such films more or less official and consequently boring.

Today, pornography is legalized in almost all countries with the exception of the Muslim ruled regions, Porn is becoming a really respectable business . For over ten years , the Adult Video News magazine presents awards for outsatnding achievements in the porn industry. The ceremony takes place in Las Vegas every year between The Golden Globes and The Oscars.
Pornography inevitably wins its part in our everyday lives. Many companies have already circulated an official prohibition of surfing porn web sites at the office. Ten-year-old children are no longer interested in sex scenes on TV and switch channels for cartoons. Does our life begin to look more like pornography?

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