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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Popular Definitions: Is "The Birth of Venus" erotica?
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According to the Webster, erotica is...
1 : literary or artistic works having an erotic theme or quality
2 : depictions of things erotic
So... no, its not erotic, not even pornographic.
Why do you ask?Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing
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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 titlilateChristianity: 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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It's as much erotica as David.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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Matthew Modine is a famous celebrity.~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~
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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.
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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THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF
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Aren't the two angels to the left going at it mid-flight?Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com
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