What's the difference between pornography and smut?
Pornography
Definition:
(n.) Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
(n.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(2) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
(3) Andrea Dworkin, who has died aged 58, was a feminist who came to represent the fierce debate on pornography and sexual violence.
(4) The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
(5) As a result of her research, Dines believes that pornography is driving men to commit particular acts of violence towards women.
(6) Williams said: "There is no doubt in my mind that you are a paedophile who has for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls, storing on your laptop not only images of pre-pubescent and pubescent girls, but foul pornography of the gross sexual abuse of young children."
(7) He also felt there is a parallel between the process of objectification that goes on in the production and consumption of pornography, and what happened to those boys.
(8) Life in short Age 50 Family Married with two children Education Emanuel school, London; Queen's College, Oxford Career Telecoms engineer (1976-78); software engineer (1978); consultant, Cern, Geneva (1978-80); founding director of Image Computer Systems (1981-84); Cern Fellowship (1984-94); developed global hypertext project which became world wide web and designed URL (universal resource locator) and HTML (hypertext markup language) Publication Weaving the Web (1999) Awards OBE (1997); KBE (2004) Quote "Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography.
(9) The problem is that your typical BNP member is a social pariah who is more into pornography than starting a family," he said.
(10) The island city-state has draconian laws about many things , from pornography to tipping.
(11) Facebook says its policies are aimed at stopping pornography and abuse.
(12) Child pornography entails the involvement of children, and we must confront it for that reason.
(13) There was anecdotal evidence to suggest revenge pornography images were being circulated among teenagers in schools and applications such as Snapchat (where photos disappear after a few seconds) were lulling young people into a false sense of security.
(14) Although homosexuality is not illegal outside Aceh, police said 10 of those arrested at the party could be charged under the country’s tough anti-pornography laws.
(15) The model includes the following aspects of the social organization of the states: social disorganization (measured by a six item index), sexual inequality (measured by a status of women index to men), pornography (measured by a sex magazine circulation index for eight sexually explicit magazines) and the level of culturally legitimate violence (measured by a 12 item legitimate violence index using indicators like corporal punishment in schools.
(16) But perhaps most of all, we need to start a national conversation between parents and their children about sex, pornography and technology."
(17) Jang Song-thaek, previously one of the country's most powerful men, was accused of everything from plotting to overthrow the state to instigating disastrous currency reforms and dishing out pornography in the report from official news agency KCNA.
(18) He also raised concerns about a number of his fellow seamen, including one whose hobbies he claimed were killing small animals and watching extreme pornography.
(19) Mr Cameron cites fictional rights to pornography in jail, but the truth is the HRA is a hard-headed document with public safety at its core.
(20) Adopted by studio owner Chris Moon and manager Owen Husney, he began plotting his route to a record deal, cultivating a canny air of mystique while playing up to an X-rated image he'd developed after an early immersion in pornography.
Smut
Definition:
(v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
(v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
(v. t.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
(v. t.) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
(v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
(v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain.
(v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
(v. i.) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
(v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demand is there, especially when people are given the green light that it's a film worth seeing, and not just smut."
(2) Chanoclavine (I) and ergonovine were identified from smut grass (Sporobolus poiretii) parasitized by B. epichloë, indicating that this endophyte produces alkaloids both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) Two classes of siderophore mutations, both recessive, were isolated after mutagenesis of haploid cells of the corn smut fungus.
(4) According to Lennie Goodings, publisher of Virago, the suggestion that in 1857 "bad girls, smut and perversion were essentially invented in the eyes of the law is both a fascinating story and, crucially, an important way of understanding how we arrived at our ideas of normalcy and deviancy – ideas which are with us to this day".
(5) "Private Eye is full of smut, but when we wrote a film a few years ago and the script editor wanted to put in a scene where the hero walked around the house naked, Ian was very against it.
(6) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
(7) We have developed a cytoduction assay to measure cell fusion quantitatively in the basidiomycete corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis.
(8) "I have no idea what Mr Dacre's sex life is, all I know is that he has this sort of preoccupation with schoolboy smut in his website, Ms X in her bikini, Ms Y showing off her suntan," Mosley said, referring to the paper's website.
(9) In the Mail, which routinely prints a lot of very readable but prurient smut throughout its middle pages, it appeared as "w*****".
(10) The amount and type of residual DNA synthesis was determined in eight temperature-sensitive mutants of the smut fungus Ustilago maydis after incubation at the restrictive temperature (32 degrees C) for eight hours.
(11) A molecular karyotype of the corn smut-inducing fungus Ustilago maydis was prepared using orthogonalfield-alternation gel electrophoresis (OFAGE).
(12) Fine hair-like appendages on the cell walls of the another smut Ustilago violacea are described.
(13) The show also featured “a weird mix of old vaudevillian-style, M15+, smut humour and bad wordplay; some jokes about clowns, sex jokes that were really quite bad but she had such great comedic delivery – kind of knowing the jokes were shit and using them as a segue into songs.
(14) The smut fungi are obligately parasitic during the sexual phase of their life cycle, and the mating-type genes of these fungi play key roles in both sexual development and pathogenicity.
(15) Cloned sequences from the a and b mating-type loci of the tetrapolar smut fungus Ustilago maydis were used as hybridization probes to DNAs from 23 different fungal strains, including smut fungi with both tetrapolar and bipolar mating systems.
(16) People who like to trace all new trends back to new technology have offered this explanation – that women who wouldn't be seen dead reading smut on the tube could read it on their Kindle, and this launched a whole world of sales.
(17) Though equal marriage has been embraced by nearly every Western nation, the warriors are fighting to the last – just as they fought no-fault divorce, the morning-after pill, IVF for lesbians, smut on television and sparing gays the useful terror of prison.
(18) Invasive infection with fungi of the Basidiomycota (rusts, smuts, toadstools, mushrooms, and puffballs) is extremely rare.
(19) Recent studies of the corn smut fungus life cycle and its regulation by two mating type loci and other genes provide a cornucopia of challenges in cell biology, genetics and protein structure.
(20) Helminthosporium, Alternaria, smut, Fusarium and rust were found in that quantitative order.