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redqueen

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5. Erotica and porn are two different things.
Sat May 31, 2014, 06:58 PM
May 2014

Ignorant people like to joke that the difference depends on what the speaker likes or doesn't like.

The difference is in the words themselves. Eros is love. Erotica depicts people who obviously care for each other. There's foreplay. There's some kind of activity beyond boner-pleasing.

Pornography is prostitution on film. It is centered around what pleases men. There is little evidence of any concern for the people. There is most often humiliation involved, if not outright abuse, and the person being abused or humiliated is most often a woman, and she is usually depicted as enjoying it. Sometimes she is obviously in pain or distress, and that shit needs to be illegal.

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