What is "proliferations"

Usage examples of "proliferations".

Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography, the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street, the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains, the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor, the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe, the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan, the perversion-targeting in video mail-order, the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs.

While acknowledging that the heat and general conditions were in themselves sufficient to produce proliferations of things like frogs and locusts, he thought it possible that the plague of flies could have come as larvae, known to be capable of surviving extremes of temperature and the absence of oxygen.