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Poor J.R.R.T never dreamed that the term could one day be used for an actual prurient operation.
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If he didn't, he showed a surprising ignorance of Greek for a Classical exhibitionist.
Teleporno is the Greek prefix
Tele (roughly 'remote', 'at a distance' cf
Television) and
porno, from
póron 'harlot, prostitute' (e.g. in
pornocracy*). JRRT could be remarkably stubborn about his projected audience reception, as in his insistence for years that readers would associate
gnomes with knowledge and wisdom as in
gnomic,
gnomon, and not garden ornaments.
*Apparently describing the tenth-century government of Rome.