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pornographer

pornographer

16 7.9
A person who makes and sells sexual pictures or films for money
  • noun
  • /pɔrˈnɒɡrəfər/
  • Offensive
translation icon : pornógrafo
  • The documentary explores the life of a famous pornographer who changed the industry.
  • child pornographers
  • Internet pornographers
  • pornographers and pedophiles

And the reason for that is because all pornographers are selling the same thing, sex.

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Examples

  • Though by training a publisher, Livre was, more exactly, a pornographer in all that pornography entailed.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • But here, in the shadows of Hollywood, the world's pornographers are at a crossroads, much like their mainstream entertainment colleagues.

    Blog text (20)
  • My mother is a pornographer.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • And the reason for that is because all pornographers are selling the same thing, sex.

  • Our city is not one where you would expect pornographers to live.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • - I love it, but he's a pornographer.

  • I don't want you being a pornographer.

  • My school will not be a training ground for budding pornographers.

  • There are abortion doctors, drug dealers, pornographers, and the prisoners of a massive cultural war.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • He's a drug dealer, a pimp, a pornographer.

Synonyms

porn merchant
vspornographer
  • Offensive
8.9

A person who sells adult pictures or films, sometimes illegally, for example to minors

focuses on creating and publishing sexually explicit material commercially rather than selling

Antonyms

35 5.5

A person who removes parts of books and films that are offensive or about politics

How Professional

moviemaker
  • US
6 3.7
pornographer
  • Offensive
16 7.9
enthusiast
81 3.4

Surface Forms

pornographer singular
pornographers plural

Morphology

pornographer = pornography (semi-transparent) = pornograph + er

The agentive suffix -er is clear, but the bound stem pornograph- is only indirectly recognizable through pornography and is somewhat specialized.

Etymology

Pornographer comes from Greek roots porne meaning 'prostitute' and graph meaning 'to write', and the ending -er means 'a person who does something'. The same graph is in photograph ('light-writing'), so think of a pornographer as a person who 'writes' or makes sexual material, which explains the modern meaning.