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erotica:

Literary or artistic works concerned with sexual love ; books, etc. having a sexual theme; pornographic writings.

Quotes:

(1) Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ' Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality .'

(2) Andrea Dworkin. Pornography (1981) Preface: ' Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer .'

(3) Walter Matthau as Justice Dan Snow in First Monday in October (1981): ' Just being offensive is not an offense. One man's pornography may be another man's poetry .' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan from a 1971 case trial on free speech: 'One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric .'


See Also: art of pleasure, Califia, ecdysia, erotic zoophilism, erotica, erotology, pornography, scientia sexualis, zooerastia, zooerasty

Quotes Containing erotica:
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography (1981) Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Men may buy pornography but women pay for it - in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual-objects. Pornography associates women with pain, inferiority, and humiliation ; the assumption for the user is that this is real and normal. Good sex is also a victim; a graduate of The School of Pornography is a sex-illiterate. Erotica differs from pornography in that it celebrates rather than degrades human-sexuality . It preserves the mutuality of sexual activity, is not exploitative, controlling, objectifying, addictive, a "using" activity, or affected by prurient-interests. ''
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Men may buy pornography but women pay for it - in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual-objects. Pornography associates women with pain, inferiority, and humiliation ; the assumption for the user is that this is real and normal. Good sex is also a victim; a graduate of The School of Pornography is a sex-illiterate. Erotica differs from pornography in that it celebrates rather than degrades human-sexuality . It preserves the mutuality of sexual activity, is not exploitative, controlling, objectifying, addictive, a "using" activity, or affected by prurient-interests. ''


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