Erotica
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Erotica (from the Greek language 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. Erotica portraying homosexual people are referred to as homoerotic.
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[edit] The Erotica/Pornography Debate
The distinction between erotica and pornography is difficult--if even possible--to identify.
Proponents for erotic art argue that such work is intended to arouse aesthetic rather than erotic feelings, and is therefore not pornographic. Opponents argue see this as a pretentious stand, as they believe that erotic art shares the same purposes as pornography. Stephen Gilbert once remarked "The difference between erotica and pornography is simple. Erotica is what I like. Pornography is what you like, you pervert!"
The issue of whether a distinction can be made between erotica and pornography raises multiple complicated questions including whether aesthetic and erotic feelings are mutually exclusive, how the level of commercialism and tastefulness in an artwork can be objectively measured and at what point they make the work pornographic, and so on.
[edit] Student publications
In the 21st century, a new literary genre of student published journals at American universities was started.<ref name="chapatimystery">http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/univercity/erotic_vita.html</ref> The following is a partial list of publications:
- Virgin Mawrtyr – Bryn Mawr College <ref name ="virginmawrtyr"> http://www.brynmawr.edu/orgs/virginmawrtyr </ref> <ref name="City paper">"Art-School-Confidentia", City paper, 11/02/2006.</ref>
- H-Bomb – Harvard University <ref name ="hbomb">http://www.h-bomb.org</ref>
- Quake – University of Pennsylvania <ref name ="Quake">http://www.quakemag.com </ref>
- Squirm – Vassar College <ref name="Squirm">http://vsa.vassar.edu/~squirm</ref>
- Erotic literature - lucyfelthouse.co.uk
- Vita Excolatur – University of Chicago <ref name ="chicago">http://vita-excolatur.blogspot.com</ref>
- Bang<ref name="swattie">Swarthmore_College#Publications</ref> and Untouchables<ref name="swattie">Swarthmore_College#Publications</ref> – Swarthmore College
- Boink - Boston University
[edit] See also
- Eroticism
- Lesbianism in erotica
- List of authors of erotic_works
- History of erotic depictions
- History of erotic photography
- Erotic art
[edit] References
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