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Originally Posted by slayda
Oh, I get it now. Old or ancient pornography is art where more recent pornography is "porn".  |
Surviving old erotica that people kept printing and reading over the ages is art because there is something at the core of it - which can be very dark as in Sade or Bataille, or exotic for us here in the West in Arabian Nights or Golden Lotus - that resonates.
Sadly these days the pendulum has swung too much towards cheapening sexuality with lots of unfortunate results too. Though at least people make their own misery rather than having it enforced by the powers to be...