Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.