erotica
September 28th 2007 05:00
e•rot•i•ca (from the Greek language Eros - "love")
(plural noun)
Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire.
--- American Heritage Dictionary
The distinction between erotica and pornography is difficult to identify, if not completely impossible. Proponents for erotic art argue that such work is intended to be artistically interesting rather than sexually, and is therefore not pornographic. Opponents see this as a pretentious stand as they believe that erotic art is indeed intended for sexual arousal. The issue of whether a distinction can be made between erotica and pornography raises multiple complicated questions. These questions include whether aesthetic and erotic feelings are mutually exclusive, how the level of commercialism and tastefulness in an artwork can be objectively measured, and at what point they make the work pornographic.
--- abridged from Encyclopedia page at www.dictionary.com
These elements most often depict the curves of the human body, the vulnerability or assertion of the sexual organs, or the opposite, having those sensitive parts of the anatomy discretely hidden or even disguised. Often what we find erotic is the suggestion of something carnal, primal even.
But much of what can be interpreted as erotic does not even involve the humna body at all, but food, or plants, or other organisms. This is because eroticism involves textures and colours, the play of light and shadow, not just that which is warm-blooded flesh.
I’m here to do what I normally do: display a selection of what Raoul Duke finds aesthetically pleasing to the eye, or to be more precise, arousing. A note for those with prudish sensibilities (I’m chuffed you’ve read this far), and the dirty mac brigade, the images below are not hardcore.
Whew, I'm a little hot under the collar after posting that! Hmmm, so where does my desire specifically lie with this selection? I feel my taste buds opening for the squeezing of the oranges. I like the sea anemone for the unorthodox effect it had on me. I relish the woman in bed with the food, simply because I love eating. I find the ebony girl with the belt a beautiful photograph dripping with sensuality. Butt, err, but I'm a derriere man at heart, so the last pic floats my boat most buoyantly.
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