American film producer Lucy Fisher, which is considered a pioneer for women and mothers who work in the entertainment industry, have commented, “brown-haired erotica in silk, pornography is blonde in nylon.
Erotica is for good middle class literacy people like us , pornography is for lonely, unattractive, and uneducated.
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For those of us who have never contemplated the fact that porn and erotica are different, Fisher’s comments come as a surprise.
Even though the statement has a fine ear from class awareness in its part, it causes our curiosity.
Very few of us have ever thought about erotica and porn as separate entities – they always overlap each other in our minds.
Erotica is an artistic work that deals substantially with substance material that stimulates erotic or arousing sexually.
All art forms can describe erotic content, including paintings, sculptures, photography, drama, film, music, or literature.
Erotica has high art aspiration, distinguishes it from commercial pornography.
On the other hand, pornography can be described as creative activity (writing, images, films, etc.) There is no literature or artistic value in addition to stimulating sexual desire.
Furthermore, retired American clinical psychologists Leon F.
Seltzer, in the 2011 article distinguishes Erotica and Pornography to write:
“If the work has been executed erotic, it is generally assumed that the creator views the subject matter as a compliment.
Something to enjoy, celebrate, elevate, glorify.”
He further added, “Unlike pornography, it does not attract exclusively for our worldly senses or lust.
It also involves our aesthetic, our assessment of how this number is or that the number illustrates the ideals of human beauty.”
The biggest points carried out by the seltzer about erotica helped us get a better understanding of what he really said: “What ultimately determines work eroticism is how the artist (or, in this case, writer or composer) approaches their subject.”
Meanwhile, the only pornographic goal is to turn on viewers.
The aim of these pornography is not to help their audience rejoice in human form or respect physical intimacy in any way.
Thus, the only pornographic goal is direct and intense passion.
This often leads to not erotic questions finally have the same effect as porn? The answer is no.
The idea behind erotica is to celebrate sexual happiness and universal desires for worldly unions.
It won’t be old or be stale from time to time – as a pornographic image is generally done.
After all, how many of us returned repeatedly to the same porn video as we watched five more years?
In addition, pornography is mainly a business making business, which does not always occur with erotica.
Also, the problem of porn that feminists have voiced for a long time is pornography, by overcoming women, reducing them into sex objects whose nucleus is to meet the needs of lustful men.
Apart from all the variations between the two, what individual erotica might be pornography and otherwise others.
Furthermore, what is superficial for one person (for example, a mermaid statue) can cause sexual response to others.
Finally, we as a society are not good at discussing sex, but the argument for what is considered porn and what is very relevant by erotica.
At least the act of distinguishing this genre opened a conversation and helped sort out some problems with writing, and reading, about sex.
