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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
Porn and erotica are the same thing. They serve the same purpose. The only difference is erotica makes the reader happy, and porn makes them unhappy.
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There are plenty of people who are perfectly happy with porn, and don't like erotica. IMO, using "porn" as a word that implicitly denotes something "bad" is wrong. I would describe it as being "explicit," "raw," "primal," etc. But not "bad;" that's a personal judgment.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
But it is a beautiful illustration of that double standard that we all, myself included, apply to explicit sex in writing.
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This.