I read an obituary the other day of Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse (a favourite teenage read of mine), which described him as a ‘pornographer’. Fair enough – and it’s a common enough phrase, not necessarily derogatory. Indeed, the word in question has over 330,000 entries on Google.
One definition (“Noun: One who is involved in the creation or dissemination of pornography”) claims that it’s been in use since the mid-19th century. Another dates it precisely to 1850. (I do wonder how it was coined – two gentlemen in their London club, one turning to the other on receipt of a new batch of naughty illustrations, and proclaiming: “You, sir, are the greatest pornographer in the land”?)
But what of its kinky equivalent. Out of curiosity, I googled ‘spankographer’. Lo and behold, the following showed up:
Your search – “spankographer” – did not match any documents.
Bing, too, drew no results. Neither did Ask or Yahoo.
That just seems *wrong”. Surely we need our own word for someone who’s “involved in the creation or dissemination” of spanking erotica?
So I hereby lay claim to the word – and, hence, to being the world’s first official spankographer. Who knows: maybe I’ll end up in a dictionary one day, if enough of you adopt the term and it ends up in widespread use.
Abel
Spankographer-in-Chief
If Stephen Colbert can do it, why not Abel?
Ah, this is where that most trust source ‘Urban Dictionary’ comes in useful:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spankography
*Or, ‘trusted’.
Rofl, Toby! Abel. I think you’re well-suited to the job!
I think that’s a slightly different connotation of the word ‘spanking’…!
Ok taking what I learned in my medical terminology class the word spankographer would be one who images spanking and a spankologist is one who studies and practices spanking and spankology would be the study of spanking. The suffix “grapher” means imager, the suffix “logist” means one who studies and practices and the suffix “logy” means the study of….hmm perverting my med terminology knowledge was quite fun.
@Abel- I hear by congradulate you on your self appointed position of spankographer-in-chief and also deem you to be a spankologist!
Ahem. x