Here's my two cents' worth:

From the Random House Dictionary:

Pornography:

Obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, especially those having little or no artistic merit.

(These supposedly "traditional songs" meet this criteria quite well.)


Bawdy:
        adjective:
        1.        Indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.

        noun:
        2.        Coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness; a collection of Elizabethan bawdry.

        Synonyms:
        lascivious, salacious, prurient, earthy, risque, ribald, coarse, licentious, raunchy

(Please note: "Bawdy" is NOT synonymous with pornography.)


Joe: here's your word. I don't agree that this material qualifies as raunchy, either.

Raunchy:
        1.        Vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
        2.        dirty; slovenly; grubby.
        3.        lecherous


I am once again sad to see our language debased. I wholeheartedly agree with Nutty, that if John wants to "research" this kind of smut, he should certainly be allowed to: on his own site, to which he is quite capable of providing a link.

Mark me disgusted.

Lin