what is the difference between erotica and

[QCICADA]

pornography? I saw these two words in a book. So plz tell me the differences. Thank you.

[Richard]

Both words could be used to discribe the same object. Erotica (from the Greek Erotika) is considered art intended to arouse sexual desire. Pornography (from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes) is considered sm*ut. It is an explicit work done to cause sexual arousal or lust. The difference is often between the ears of the observer.

[david_in_milwaukee]

The difference is how you look at things.Personally, erotica is an art form, created to give the impression that something is "going on", by artistic use of lighting, costuming, props etc. Pornography leaves nothing to the imagination and shows everthing in all its detail without any artistic elements (lighting is used to show, not hide, costumes - or lack thereof - hide nothing, and the only props are, well, there generally aren't any).But like I said, it is all how you define things. I am not offended by well done erotica, porn on the other hand I could live without.

[iganokami]

Semantics.

[frankenchokie]

i think erotika comes from the word eros! which is a greek definition of love for wife! but pornography is not for love it is lust! pornography arouses the ignoble feeling of pleasure

[mmemmer]

Semantics.

Now that just wasn't called for to go and get that all over the art work!:yowsa:

[romanticknight8u]

Erotica refers to the pleasure and arousal caused by sexual desires.It comes from the Greek EROS which is the god of love ( just like aphrodite, which is the godess) Pornography refers to the nudity and graphic sexual depiction of the sexual act. the word comes from the Greek PORNOGRAPHOS which means "writing about protitutes"

[Rcourt64]

Now that just wasn't called for to go and get that all over the art work!:yowsa:

why are you speaking to these auto generated profiles? :scratchin

[Nymph]

Nothing if it's done right ;)

[Rcourt64]

Nothing if it's done right ;)

why are you even speaking to me for that matter?????

[Nymph]

why are you even speaking to me for that matter?????

Duhhhhh, that wasn't to you, it was to the original post

"what is the difference between erotica and pornography?"


Don't make me get freaky on you tonight ;)

[Rcourt64]

Duhhhhh, that wasn't to you, it was to the original post

"what is the difference between erotica and pornography?"


Don't make me get freaky on you tonight ;)

NO, NO >Your one host these Stepford Auto Posting Wifes :nono: Aren't you????

[Nymph]

NO, NO >Your one host these Stepford Auto Posting Wifes :nono: Aren't you????

It's my old server...it's haunting me :rolleyes:

[mmemmer]

:huh:, is that popcorn that I smell Gonzo making?

[Rcourt64]

It's my old server...it's haunting me :rolleyes:

Fuck that, Someones experimenting with Stepford Posters

Oprano Stepfordmaster :okthumb:

[dallas]

Somehow, erotica connotes more "class" than pornography. But in my opinion they're really the same. Here is what the dictionary says:Erotica: Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire.Pornography: 1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. 2. The presentation or production of this material. 3. Lurid or sensational material: “Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the... pornography of the era� (Morris Dickstein).

[Hell Puppy]

Rcourt is a bot.

[Rcourt64]

Rcourt is a bot.
these seem better that just a simple bot preogram, they post reacting to keywords it seems :scratchin at least thats what it looks like

[Hell Puppy]

these seem better that just a simple bot preogram, they post reacting to keywords it seems :scratchin at least thats what it looks like

So how does that make you feel?

[Rcourt64]

So how does that make you feel?
I wasn't aware this was an emotional post?
if i replied with "They make me hard" Would they become worth marketing?
As if your tail ends seem to be working towards auto generated cyper-porn

[NewbieBot]

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Erotica (from the Greek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language) Eros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28love%29) - "desire") — refers to works of art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_art), including literature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_literature), photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroticism) stimulating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_stimulation) or arousing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_arousal) descriptions. Erotica is a modern word used to describe the portrayal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_%28arts%29) of the human anatomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_anatomy) and sexuality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_activity) with high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial pornography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica#_note-0)

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual) subject matter, especially with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotica), which is the use of sexually-arousing imagery for mainly artistic purposes. Over the past few decades, an immense industry for the production and consumption of pornography has grown, due to emergence of the VCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR), the DVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD), and the Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet), as well as the emergence of social attitudes more tolerant of sexual portrayals. Performers in pornography are referred to as pornographic actors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic_actor) (or actresses), or the more commonly known title, "Porn Star", and are generally seen as qualitatively different from their non-pornographic counterparts.<-- End of definition sequence