Porn Vs. Erotica: The Battle Continues
Our opinions on the whole porn vs. erotica debate are well documented — but we always appreciate hearing someone else’s opinion (we’re democratic like that). Over at Best Sex Bloggers, Sarah Sloane is having a fine time hashing it out. Some of our favorite lines:
- Erotica uses words like “mons”, “cleavage”, and “penis”. Porn uses words like “man meat”, “jizz”, and “cum dumpster”.
- Erotica has themes like sex with a stranger, surprise threeways, and sex in the woods. Porn has themes like MILFs, Amateurs, and biracial orgies.
- Erotica is not sold behind the counter in your shady neighborhood convenience store. Porn is not sold in Borders.
So what’s your opinion? What’s the difference? Is there really one at all?
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“Mons” is never sexy.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:29 pmI think “erotica” is about more than just arousal, ot at least tries to be.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pmAargh not again, just let us jerk in peeace
September 25th, 2008 at 7:47 pmi don’t think there’s an actual distinction, and there isn’t really a need for one. erotica is basically a euphemism. i don’t know, it’s kind of like calling the Department of War the Department of Defense as if it’s different. some people just have bad connotations to the word porn so they feel the need to say ‘erotica’.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:16 pmFirst off, I agree with the Porn Librarian. “Mons” is so incredibly unsexy, as is vagina, labia, scrotum, and even anus. Clinical words are never sexy, IMO.
Erotica and porn are not, have never been, and will never be mutually exclusive, even for people who try to make linear distinctions between the two concepts. Erotica can be pornographic, and pornography can be erotic. One person’s erotica is another person’s porn. Or is that the other way around?
For me, the term erotica has always been nebulous anyway. I don’t have any specific set of parameters that I can point to that allows me to fit something into a category I define as “erotica.” I guess “porn” appeals directly to my basal sexual desires on a much more visceral level than pure “erotica” does. And like others, I tend to see erotica as more of a “written” thing and porn as a visual concept.
In reality, though, I’ve never expended any great amount of energy trying to distinguish between the two. I use that energy to get myself off while using porn…I mean, um, erotica.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pmErotica has better lighting.
September 28th, 2008 at 3:38 amI think porn is more literal, where as erotica is more effusive. From Hamlet, “More matter, less art”. Porn is about the action, it’s not concerned with why these people are fucking, it’s reductionist, clear in it’s intent and focus.
Erotica concerns itself with motive and scene-setting, it’s interested in setting a tone and a moment, not simply recording the action for the sake of action.
But they’re both good, and at times necessary. Sometimes I want to read Alison Tyler or Rachel Kramer Bussell and be in this tizzy of a moment. Sometimes I want to watch Princess Donna fuck the shit out of someone on Kink.com
Sex can be a slow romantic screw or a blowjob on the back of a train car. That’s why we’re paying so much damn attention to it, right?
September 29th, 2008 at 9:19 pmErotica is what turns you on, porn is erotica that’s too kinky for you.
September 29th, 2008 at 9:20 pmWell yeah, there is a difference: your own perception.
Apart from that, it’s technically the same.
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