The Name of the Game

Iconography is simply the pattern of visual imagery one expects to see in a given genre. Just as we expect to see monsters in horror films, guns, suits, and hats in gangster films, and horses and cowboys in westerns, so in a porno do we expect to see naked bodies engaging in sexual numbers. (...) Masturbatory, straight, "lesbian", oral, ménage à trois, anal, orgiastic, and sadomasochistic sex.

Linda Williams

Hard Core, Power, Pleasure, and "The Frenzy of the Visible", 1989