”..it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word pornography.”

nom-de-fume:

From the Paris Review some thoughts on the genre from:  Avi Steinberg:  author of Running the Books, a memoir of his adventures as a prison librarian, recently out in paperback.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/01/30/checking-out/