The young people would often have porn on or put it up on screens in the room. They would be showing or talking about the weirdest things you can think of – all about violence and power. I started to think it would be an interesting thing to make theatre about.” The idea of ‘falling down a rabbit hole’ – being pulled further and further into an alternative reality, came up in conversations again and again. pronunciation of "DRTY", an acronym for "dead right there yesterday". Used by some EMTs to describe a patient found in long-dead condition. We got inside, but he was dirty.

pornography, representation of sexual behaviour in books, pictures, statues, films, and other media that is intended to cause sexual excitement. The distinction between pornography (illicit and condemned material) and erotica (which is broadly tolerated) is largely subjective and reflects changing community standards. The word pornography, derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”), was originally defined as any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes. Apart from its sexual element, pornography became a powerful vehicle for social and political protest. It provided a vehicle for the exploration of daring ideas that were condemned by both church and state, including sexual freedom for women as well as for men and the practices of contraception and abortion. Much pornography also focused on the misdeeds of royals and aristocrats, thereby contributing to the discrediting of the elites of Europe. Perhaps the most important author of socially radical pornography was the Marquis de Sade, whose books—notably Justine (1791)—combined orgiastic scenes with long philosophical debates on the evils of property and traditional social hierarchy. hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion, "Jacobellis v. Ohio," 1964]

Even when porn isn’t being used to describe sexually explicit content, it still refers to content that people look at or interact with to satisfy a desire. It also still generally refers to content that is beyond what’s readily accessible in day to day life—gold-covered ice cream, for example, or meticulously laid-out cheese boards. This definition has always been about sex. However, what specific qualities make an image, text, or video porn depends on who you’re asking. From a legal standpoint, the most famous definition of hard-core porn was made by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964: “I know it when I see it.” ( Soft-core porn is “sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal.”)

One 15-year-old boy told her: “Whenever porn is discussed everything is negative. But there may be an act happening in the video where it can make you feel less alone.” A bill that would have introduced age verification was halted at the last minute in 2019 – after being passed by Parliament – by the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Children’s groups including the NSPCC spoke at the time of their anger and unhappiness that protections were delayed yet again.Wright wants more adults to listen to children and ask them how they feel about what they are seeing online. It’s free and it’s stress-free – because with a girlfriend there’s all these complications. The screen is going to do what you want no matter what you say or how you act. Porn starts a relationship with you when you are young.” It just gets better and better as you go further and further down the rabbit hole. With porn, you can flip through all these videos and go – nope, nope, nope, nope – imagine standing in front of real women and going nah, nah, nah.” Immediately hands would go up – they wouldn’t tend to use the word ‘porn’ but they would often use the language they had heard in lessons – saying ‘oh yes there are inappropriate things, we do see them’. “ The company released the dirty data on Tuesday, revealing that “lesbian” was the most-searched term across the frisky 50 states, with “hentai” — a type of Japanese anime — following close behind.