The meaning of the word has expanded to cover the "graphic, detailed,
often gratuitous depiction of something."

Example: In The Four Pillars of Wisdom, he devotes a well-deserved chapter
to the financial press and its weakness for "financial pornography"—lurid
coverage of star money managers. (Seattle Times, Auhust 4, 2002).

See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pornography

It's no longer restricted to matters of a lurid or sexual nature. Films
like "Saw" have been called "torture porn"; closeups of people brought to
tears in TV interviews are a form of emotional porn; photographs of
high-end photographic gear, fishing tackle, audio gear, cars, bicycles,
etc., in magazines are commonly referred to as types of porn.

Anything one might drool over, including, apparently, brakes.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
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On 4/8/2009 6:03 PM Mike S wrote:

> At 08:18 PM 4/8/2009, Robert Fisher wrote...
>> Hey, some of us like our pRoN. : )
>
> But how are pictures of a Vanagon comparable to pictures of prostitutes
> (the root meaning of "pornography")?
>
> I understand the vernacular, but it's just poor choice of language.
>