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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 1115225" data-attributes="member: 5468">When speaking in terms of law, or of physical science, etc., it is of course quite important to use the narrowly defined definition of that word, but when the word also has a widely accepted general usage, it is important to note how it is being used.  Consider how the word "theory" has dramatically different meanings in science, law, and general useage.  Note how Playboy, and Maxim (and possibly the X-Men comic, and/or some but not all of your examples) fulfil the dictionary.com definition.  I also notice that you did *not* include the full law.com definition.  n. pictures and/or writings of sexual activity intended solely to excite lascivious feelings of a particularly blatant and aberrational kind, such as acts involving children, animals, orgies, and all types of sexual intercourse. The printing, publication, sale and distribution of "hard core" pornography is either a felony or misdemeanor in most states. Since determining what is pornography and what is "soft core" and "hard core" are subjective questions to judges, juries and law enforcement officials, it is difficult to define, since the law cases cannot print examples for the courts to follow. - taken from law.com's legal dictionaryNote that this speaks to the definition of pornography in law and that it differentiates between "hard-core" (often illegal) and "soft-core" (not spoken of as illegal) pornography.  A wide range of material could be placed in the dictionary definition, and I do not think this harms Sigil's argument at all.</blockquote>

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