Pornocracy
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Pornocracy, from Ancient Greek pórnē + -cracy), is a government ruled by prostitutes or by corrupt officials (who metaphorically "prostitute" themselves for power).
The term was coined by Protestant German theologians in the nineteenth century to denote the period of the saeculum obscurum.
Pornocracy may also refer to:
- Saeculum obscurum, a period in the Papacy often referred to as "pornocracy"
- Pornocrates, an 1878 painting by Félicien Rops
- Anatomy of Hell, a 2004 film by Catherine Breillat based on her 2001 novel Pornocracy
- La Pornocratie, ou les Femmes dans les temps modernes, an 1875 book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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See also
- Saeculum obscurum
- Pornocratie, a novel by Catherine Breillat
- Pornokrates, work by Rops
- Phallocracy
- De regno vulvarum
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