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  • Popular Definitions: Is "The Birth of Venus" erotica?

    After voting, post the way you've defined the word "erotica" for yourself, and how it differs from your definition of "pornography". Here's the painting in question:
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    It's erotica or pornography
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    It's not erotica or pornography
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    It needs more bananas
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    Last edited by RGBVideo; June 15, 2006, 19:38.

  • #2
    According to the Webster, erotica is...

    1 : literary or artistic works having an erotic theme or quality
    2 : depictions of things erotic
    And, according to me, porn is w@nking material.

    So... no, its not erotic, not even pornographic.

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    • #3
      According to mrmitchell:

      Erotica is any art in which the focus is on something sexual

      Pornography is erotica that is designed to be whacking material

      You can't call it "erotica" if it gives you a boner. Then it's porn.
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      • #4
        It's pornography and you should be banned for posting it.
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        • #5
          Given that Venus is the goddess of love and sex, it would technically fit the definition of erotic art, however, it is not intended to titlilate
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #6
            It's as much erotica as David.
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            • #7
              Matthew Modine is a famous celebrity.
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              • #8
                It's not porm because it's not design to provoke purient thoughts.
                It's not erotic because it is not sexual.
                It's a celebration of the beauty of the female form.

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                • #9
                  I think some of whether something is erotica or what have you depends on the observer

                  for me, Sears catologues have been erotica...

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Zkribbler

                    It's a celebration of the beauty of the female form.

                    That's a pretty shallow interpretation.
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                    • #11
                      Well, I'm a pretty shallow guy.

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                      • #12
                        Remember, to a shoe fetishist an advertisement for stiletto heels can be 'erotica'.

                        In times when censorship was more frequent and wide ranging, British Customs have seized D. H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', impounded a mediaeval feminist tract, Christine de Pisan's 'Trésor de la Cité des Dames' from bookshop 'Gay's The Word' and teenage boys could get excited over bra and girdle advertisements in newspapers.

                        It's not just the intent of the maker of the work of art, but also the attitude (censorious or permissive) of society at large.

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                        • #13
                          THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
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                          • #14
                            Al Qaeda porn:
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                            Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                            ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                            • #15
                              Aren't the two angels to the left going at it mid-flight?
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