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pornography

[pawr-nog-ruh-fee] / pɔrˈnɒg rə fi /


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Ethics standards and popular opposition for years lumped military industries with tobacco and pornography as no-go clients for blue-chip lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

In March, app-addicted Indonesia started enforcing a social media ban for under-16s in a bid to shield some 70 million children from the threats of online pornography, cyberbullying and internet addiction.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

The government pointed to measures including the Online Safety Act, which says social media companies will have to protect children from harmful material including pornography, material promoting self-harm, bullying and content encouraging dangerous stunts.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2025

DePape had planned to use Nancy Pelosi to “lure” Target 1, Linker said, whose research on feminism, pornography and gender roles he believed was at the “root of harm to children.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2023

He began making donations to worthy causes; he wouldn’t have sex, because he wasn’t married; he scorned profanity and pornography; and he attempted to follow the Ten Commandments in every detail.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

On one hand: in another of Nancy Meyers’s bourgeois pornographies.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2015




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