Romance category

[EverLux]

Or pottery, or paintings, or drawings, or good photography or very well-done videos or... I've seen a lot of explicit works in all of those fields that are so well-done that *I* have to think of them as artistic. Someone who is offended by them won't find them artistic. The difference is subjective. As I recall that is largely why the US Supreme Court declined to define pornography. The demarcation is up to you.

Sorry -- I was alluding (not very well) to the definitions GoldenCojones put in his post. Erotica's includes sculpture; pornography's doesn't.

But you make great points

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Oh, there can be romance, but it's not Romance (if you ask the majority of readers in that category )

I'm a rebel, now I wish I had posted it in the Romance category just to see what people thought of it! hehehe

 

[EverLux]

I'm a rebel, now I wish I had posted it in the Romance category just to see what people thought of it! hehehe

Oh, but it's not too late. You can always switch categories. Go for it! lol

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Oh, but it's not too late. You can always switch categories. Go for it! lol

Really.......

And I looked for your story in Romance but don't see it, did you move it?
I'm trying to read something from everyone to see how everyone writes, see what your style is.

 

[sr71plt]

Ask Dictionary.com. Then again, video could be included in "or the like."

I'm pretty sure that Dictionary.com hasn't produced any erotica--or porn for that matter.

 

[EverLux]

Really.......

And I looked for your story in Romance but don't see it, did you move it?
I'm trying to read something from everyone to see how everyone writes, see what your style is.

I'd initially had it in Romance but moved it to Group.
https://www.literotica.com/s/learning-to-love-the-heat

And here's where you can search for members by name:
Member Search

 

[GoldenCojones]

I'm pretty sure that Dictionary.com hasn't produced any erotica--or porn for that matter.

No, but that doesn't mean they aren't a decent reference source. If words can mean whatever you want them to mean and no one agrees on the meaning they become worthless.

Consider if what you called a beef, I called chicken and someone else called pork. It would make grocery shopping a nightmare.

 

[sr71plt]

No, but that doesn't mean they aren't a decent reference source. If words can mean whatever you want them to mean and no one agrees on the meaning they become worthless.

Consider if what you called a beef, I called chicken and someone else called pork. It would make grocery shopping a nightmare.

I've already posted that I didn't mind if their definition doesn't agree with mine. And it doesn't. I hold that pornography goes beyond arousal, that it goes to release. I think whatever their source is hasn't been observing much pornography.

 

[OliviaM]

I think everyone has pretty much said everything on this subject but I wanted to point out:

Romance (capital or lowercase) produces a very specific emotional state due to the dynamics between two or more characters. It can be angst, yearning, need, desire, etc... but at the end of the story, whatever emotional state you've produced in your readers must be satisfied. The leads must get together or there has to be a resolution of some kind. Happily Ever After tends to be the stock answer to this, but I have read romantic stories where I either didn't need it or really wanted some other ending instead. I also feel there's room for ambiguous or alternative endings (Gone With the Wind?) but this may take you out of the Romance-with-a-capital-R genre.

So some people are writing hot sex which happens to have a romantic element and some people are writing romance with some hot sex. Neither is better or worse than the other - each just appeals to different needs in the reader.

 

[Rollinbones]

I've received a number of vitriolic pms about the placement of my summer comp story in the romance category. It's deliberately dark and violent but the core of the tale is the love a man felt for his wife. Oh, and one pm suggesting I lube my keyboard and jam it up my arse if i ever think of writing anything that depressing again on a porn site... I didn't expect it to fare well with its minimal flogability factor but people seem to take the romance category quite seriously.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't see why a video can't be erotic.

Agree! Go to the Hysterical Literature web site, and tell me those readers aren't erotic....