Is there a difference to you between PORN and EROTICA?
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Thank you for your kind comments
I've been away due to: Wind Storms, Car Accidents, Phone being Shut Off, Comp Problems
And while I was gone a kind few of you have said some nice things about my super short story "The Kitchen" for which I humbly and gratefully thank you.
I've been away due to: Wind Storms, Car Accidents, Phone being Shut Off, Comp Problems
And while I was gone a kind few of you have said some nice things about my super short story "The Kitchen" for which I humbly and gratefully thank you.
Re: How about...
I can ssure you your stories ARE erotic Ark!
Personally speaking, my idea of what constitutes erotica is the build up of excitement, tension - both sexually charged (obviously) and otherwise, the whole will-it-happen-won't-it-happen scenario.
For erotica to work, I believe there has to be an air of mystery inasmuch as one might believe that, yes, sex will occur but the method/time/place is still unknown until moments before it happens.
Porn on the other hand is a foregone conclusion that sex, nay, fucking, will almost certainly happen and in probably a very base manner.
Porn is too in-your-face...if you pardon the expression!
Porn is bending over wearing a mini skirt and no knickers, baring all....
Erotica is beding over in a slightly slit pencil skirt wearing seamed stockings...bearing nothing save a little thigh!
Arkontheroof said:Porn is always graphic, and may be interesting*
Erotica is interesting, and may incidentally be graphic
...?
* Interesting: unusual locations, sexual tension, twists of plot or dominance, or any similar attempt to intrigue by more than simply descriptions of colliding genitals
Obviously I'm using the two words to make a value judgement, and obviously I'd like to think that my stories are "erotica" (i.e. interesting!)
I can ssure you your stories ARE erotic Ark!
Personally speaking, my idea of what constitutes erotica is the build up of excitement, tension - both sexually charged (obviously) and otherwise, the whole will-it-happen-won't-it-happen scenario.
For erotica to work, I believe there has to be an air of mystery inasmuch as one might believe that, yes, sex will occur but the method/time/place is still unknown until moments before it happens.
Porn on the other hand is a foregone conclusion that sex, nay, fucking, will almost certainly happen and in probably a very base manner.
Porn is too in-your-face...if you pardon the expression!
Porn is bending over wearing a mini skirt and no knickers, baring all....
Erotica is beding over in a slightly slit pencil skirt wearing seamed stockings...bearing nothing save a little thigh!
well, my two cents....
I did not read them all so if someone else said this then I say "DITTO"
really, I think that Erotica walks that nice little space left between our mother's romance novels and our father's nudey magazines.
I would say, I personnally, want people to get aroused by my writing, and at the same time I also use it to work out story lines and character development. BUT if no one was turned on, driven to mad desires to get sexual attention, then I would not bother.
SO: in my opinion from most innocent to obscene...
Romance
Erotica
Porn
and the grey lines just mark 'em all up good and grey like.
I did not read them all so if someone else said this then I say "DITTO"
really, I think that Erotica walks that nice little space left between our mother's romance novels and our father's nudey magazines.
I would say, I personnally, want people to get aroused by my writing, and at the same time I also use it to work out story lines and character development. BUT if no one was turned on, driven to mad desires to get sexual attention, then I would not bother.
SO: in my opinion from most innocent to obscene...
Romance
Erotica
Porn
and the grey lines just mark 'em all up good and grey like.
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