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Here's a quote from the Smart Bitches web page:
[blockquote]So let's use that as the "working" definition of porn vs. erotica. Porn is the depiction of sex in written or visual media, without focus on emotions, cause or effect, while erotica includes the depiction of sexual acts with additional analysis of the reason why that sexual act works. To put it another way, with pornography, you're not included in the character's minds or motivations, and with erotica, you are.
Thus erotic romance is the story of a courtship or establishment of a romantic relationship… with a heavy focus or presence of explicit sexual scenes, and may include analysis or insight into emotion and motivation beyond "I wish to have the sex now." Moreover, with erotic romance and erotica, the sexuality is integral to the development of the story; it's not just embellishment to the sex scenes.
So erotica and erotic romance have more in common with one another than they do with pornography, gravity-defying sex notwithstanding. That is not surprising. [/blockquote]
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