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Porn that went to grad school and learned to use metaphors.
means Literature, art, or writing designed to evoke sexual desire, typically with more emphasis on narrative, emotion, and craft than explicit depiction.
from From Greek 'erotika,' meaning 'matters of love,' rooted in 'eros' (erotic/sexual love, and also the god Eros). The Greeks had multiple words for love — eros, philia, agape — and this one got the job of naming desire itself. The word entered English in the 1850s specifically to classify literature and art about sexual love, giving the sensual a respectable, scholarly-sounding label it still wears today.
- legal distinction
- courts separate it from obscenity by artistic merit
- biggest buyers
- romance novels, mostly bought by women
- etymology
- named after eros, greek god of desire
- self published boom
- ebooks let anyone publish anonymously and profitably