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While it is true that in ancient Europe, and well into the eighteenth century (obvious examples come from France), deliberate lewdness was not inconsistent with flashes of comedy, or vigorous satire, or even the verve of a fine poet in a wanton mood, it is also true that in modern times the term 'pornography' connotes mediocrity, commercialism, and certain strict rules of narration. Obscenity must be mated with banality because every kind of aesthetic enjoyment has to be entirely replaced by simple sexual stimulation which demands the traditional word for direct action upon the patient. — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, On a Book Entitled Lolita So I was always baffled by mathematical / combinatorial character of De Sade’s pornography and seeming absence of it in modern porno. But then, it’s clichéd too, and it reuses really simple constituents, much like finite automata of some birds’ songs. Pornography must be fiction, and not combinatorics.