Erotica, from
the Greek Eros, “love”, are works of art, including
literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal
substantively with erotically stimulating or arousing
descriptions. Erotica is rather a modern word used to
describe the portrayal of human sensuality and sexuality with
high-art aspirations, differentiating such work from commercial
pornography.
While
pornography popularly focuses on unadorned and unemotional lusts and the
explicit depiction of sexual acts, erotica tends to define material with a
higher emotional content, the development of place, character and story
line, or of an overall artistic theme. However, such distinctions are
necessarily subjective and may say more about the critic's own tastes on
erotic material than the artistic and other attributes of the material
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