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• The Porn Librarian says :

  “Mons” is never sexy.

  September 25th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
• Harvey says :

  I think “erotica” is about more than just arousal, ot at least tries to be.

  September 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
• Isil says :

  Aargh not again, just let us jerk in peeace

  September 25th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
• al oof says :

  i 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 pm
• Alexa says :

  First 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 pm
• Patrick Di Justo says :

  Erotica has better lighting.

  September 28th, 2008 at 3:38 am
• Garrett says :

  I 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 pm
• Archetypal Fool says :

  Erotica is what turns you on, porn is erotica that’s too kinky for you.

  September 29th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
• H. says :

  Well yeah, there is a difference: your own perception.

  Apart from that, it’s technically the same.

  October 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
• ledemure says :

  BIG DIFFERENCE!!!
  Porn objectifies women.
  Erotica celebrates women.

  Porn is purely physical and often shows men forcefully probing and telling them women some pretty degrading things about themselves.

  Erotica typically is a little more intellectually stimulating and physically so.

  How many porn videos show male anything probing a female (or male depending on what type of porn you are watching) without any clitoral stimulation and how many show men actually giving oral sex to women the way we like to receive it? And who wants their “mons” to be spit on? And who wants to stimulate their own breast? Porn does all women a disservice.

  Erotica allows the participants to be in charge, or chose not to be in charge, without degrading anyone. Erotica can be very physical and even aggressive. But no one participating in erotica is made out to be some kind of science experiment with all the poking and pulling.

  November 20th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
• JD says :

  IMHO, pornography and erotica overlap in many ways. It objectifies, degrades, exemplifies, and celebrates all people, regardless of race, weight, height, and orientation. Erotica in most cases refers to motionless captures: artwork in terms of photography, sketches, paintings, sculptures, comic books, etc. Pornography is in motion, it’s fast or slow paced. Examples of pornography and erotica overlapping: films produced and distributed by the Sinclair Institute TM. The better sex videos. It also adds education there. People who choose the Tantra profession are choosing the erotic side of sex, teaching self release of the energies and meshing the energies with another individual. Realistically, some tantric providers just offer sex at the end of the session, difference is the sex with the same individual or sometimes different partners, not necessarily at the same time over a length of whether a day, week, months, or years. Pornography is mostly on how much sex can one have with certain individual(s) and at the same time. People who have multiple (wives, girlfriends, or nsa friends) over a period of time practice erotica. People with multiple partners regardless of wives, girlfriends, or nsa friends, at the same time practice pornography.

  Rough sex = pornography, sensual sex = erotica.

  January 7th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

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