Pornocracy

period of unparalleled papal decadence (early 10th century). [Christian Hist.: Grun, 106]

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Opinion brokers, in turn, waged a "struggle against pornocracy" (Chapter 6); and the actress, as characterized in plays, novels, and the press, thus again became a dangerous seductress threatening stable families.

Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siecle

The sober papal historian, Cardinal Baronius, writing in the sixteenth century, labelled this period the 'Pornocracy'.

The ideal of unity; Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe's persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall

With both countries, the result is identical: Catholicism, which hitherto was the most powerful single weapon against Communism, paper-shuffling capitalism and materialist pornocracy overall, is today--though not, despite its foes' mightiest labours, actually killed--at the very lowest estimate permanently weakened.

The Politics of Deviance

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