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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
There are plenty of people who are perfectly happy with porn
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As evidenced by the fact that it's one of the most lucrative industries in the civilized world.
To label either one of them as bad or good is misleading. I think it's more accurate to say that the two words are used to describe essentially the same thing, but "porn" is less accepted in civilized society than "erotica" is. I can imagine that someone who earns their living writing erotica doesn't want to be described as a "porn writer", but since that typically means "screenplay writer in the adult movie industry", that wouldn't be very accurate either.
It's like the difference between an exotic dancer and a stripper. One label is considered more "sleazy", than the other, but they both refer to the exact same thing in the end.
