kel went the right way at || 11:38 pm
Erotica vs. porn. Hmm. Interesting thought, actually. Don't try googling unless you have plenty of time, because the first page of results is useless. The really braindead answer answer would be: ONE IS ART AND THE OTHER IS NOT. Of course, that's the one answer we want to avoid, because it will then be followed by: WHAT IS ART? WHAT MAKES IT ART? So, I will try to answer this.
(May I make a note here that I try to refrain from using the word 'erotica'. Adult websites use it to describe what is clearly porn, and thank you very much, but what I read are contemporary romances, NOT porn. I have literary standards, you know, for all I don't discriminate.)
On a first note, I should mention that I think that the main distinction is which of a man's heads it affects as a first reaction. Sure, some erotica does...affect some, in those ways, and some porn does have aesthetic value (disregarding, for the moment, the precise and disputed definition of the word 'aesthetic'). However, what we are concerned with here is the first instinctive reaction. I am, of coruse, making assumptions here, but this isn't a graded essay, so the hell with that. Does anyone remember the pictures Mr Dio showed us at the lecture? The first is clearly art, and the second clearly porn. Though the first is, DUH, a nude, and the second is quite...aesthetically pleasing, with all the pink and soft fluffy pillows, most would react to the first with the question: WHAT INSPIRED THIS? or something of the sort. However, most would react to the other with the question: IS SHE AVAILABLE? Even with the question: HOW MUCH? the first case would translate into the sale of the picture to place in a gallery and the second into the sale of other...services.
On a second, we also have to look at intent. Where the artist places his work in a gallery, a pornographer places his in Playboy or other such disreputable mediums - a clear indication of intention. The artist wants the nude human form to evoke intellectual thought and appreciation, and the pornographer wants to evoke lust.
And then, to conclude this Short Ditty of Pure Bullshit, I shall state that the difference between erotica and porn is like the difference between fucking (again, excuse the language) and making love. One is an act of primitive barbarism, the other an act of primitive barbarism with the emotion tacked to it. And such is one art, and the other not.
(NB: to those who read my actual blog, make note that I interrupt my embargo for this and only for this. Intellectuality is the only thing that can prevent me from a declamation against that pint-sized little whore-bitch.)
AND PEOPLE, PLS USE YOUR OWN NAMES! It is irritating when posts are written by strange people and one has no idea who's saying it. At least with langantree it's obvious, but with strange people like vivieatto (sp?? and wtf??), WHO THE HELL ARE YOU???
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