 ""Pornographie"" was in use in the French language during the 1800s.The word did not enter the English language as the familiar word until 1857 or as a French import in New Orleans in 1842.The word was originally introduced by classical scholars as "a bookish, and therefore nonoffensive, term for writing about prostitutes", but its meaning was quickly expanded to include all forms of "objectionable or obscene material in art and literature".