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I agree with the general idea that "erotica has more of a story, porn is primarily about depicting sex." However, there is a football field-sized area of greyness even in that definition. It leaves the writer's ability in question, ie, is the story they wrote a good story? If it's bad, does his erotic work suddenly become porn? And if a writer writes an incredible story around the most explicit and raw sex scenes, does it skew from porn to erotica?
Sex is one of the last areas of media that are so vaguely, subjectively handled based on archaic social, political and religious standards. But as other forms of media are breaking out of those standards--take a look at shows like Spartacus, for example--literature is, as usual, bringing up the rear (and largely missing the pun intended in that statement).
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