What is porn?

[MADDOG]

How do you define porn? Some might call this a porn site, and some aspects of it may well fall under that category. But what of the stories? Are they pornographic? Where do you draw the line between Porn and Erotica, or is there no line at all?

MADDOG

 

[Jeff726]

there is no real standard or a "black and white" if you will. just shades of gray. and when it comes to erotica and pronography its really up to each individual person.

myself I think that porn deals with basic raw physicalities, whereas erotica deals more behind the feelings. the emotions, the psyche, and so on.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Canucklehead922]

I don't know if there really is much of a difference. Call it porn or call it erotica, it's still the same thing. Labels are never accurate anyhow. The only reason I can see to use "erotica" is that the word is slightly more respectable than "porn." It just has to do with the baggage associated with each word.

Hey...Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, Third College Edition declares the following:

Erotic: of or arousing sexual feelings or desires
Pornography: writings, pictures, etc. intended primarily to arouse sexual desire.

Vindication is mine!

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Porn is base and soulless and has background music written by LA garage bands whose music used to play under "Starsky and Hutch" car chases.

Erotica is heady and human and knows that lust is between the ears, not the legs, and, unfortunately, often comes with soft focus narration like, "I shall always recall that summer in Sussex with Charles, Frieda and the Gardener's Son Sven..."

Softcore is giggly and purile and being invisible in a girl's lockeroom and usually stars Willy Ames or Scott Baio.

 

[Guest]

Definition of porn...

It's fun! lol
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[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

I totally agree with tiggs.LOL I think it is what the individual see's it as. I feel porn and erotica is the same thing.

Bonnie

 

[Lethal_beauty_27]

i vote for no difference what so ever..............everyone believes in different sexual things..............whos to say what is what

 

[Hecate]

My vote ...

... point of view!

 

[Aranian]

This is an excerpt from the writer's guide on this site. To an extent I disagree with this definition, but for all intents and purposes it's the "official" literotica description.
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Erotica Versus Pornography:

Erotica is not pornography, though it can contain pornography. The primary difference is that the single purpose of pornography is to sexually arouse the reader, period. There is not much of a plotline, if any, and there is no character development. Erotica, on the other hand, tends to have a genuine story, which helps to emphasize the erotic elements. There may be character development through the course of the story, and there is a much greater emphasis on the thoughts and emotions of the characters. Make sure you know which of these you are writing before you start.

 

[Cheri]

The difference between pornography and erotica is imagination. Porn requires nothing of it's viewers other than the patience to wait (or fast forward) and see what ever vingette it is that rocks their boat. Erotica on the other hand does require it's audience to visualize and conjure up it's own feeling as be aroused. And in some way erotica allows the audience more control than porn does, since it doesn't lay everything out there in the open. Even the most blatant story on this site doesn't tell you what to see...is the woman it in more like the perky check-out girl at Meijer or the uptight business woman next door?

Besides isn't the stuff we dream up endlessly more arosing than anything we shown (graphically) to us in some porn flick?
Merriam-Webster Online says....
erotica: literary or artistic works having an erotic theme or quality
pornography: the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement