erotica

Definition

erotica rate

(Adult / Slang)

Quotes:

(1) Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ' Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.'

(2) Andrea Dworkin. Pornography (1981) Preface: ' Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.'

(3) Walter Matthau as Justice Dan Snow in First Monday in October (1981): ' Just being offensive is not an offense. One man's pornography may be another man's poetry.' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan from a 1971 case trial on free speech: 'One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.'