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• n  creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire

• Erotica has people in it that are real and that you can identify with.
• Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, subterranean erotica the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with .
• The erotica entrepreneur attributes the growth in his market to the fact that as many as 20 million people have in recent years joined Brazil's middle class defined in Brazil .

• pornography
• porno
• porn
• smut

News & Articles

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• Book News: CIA Nominee Catches Grief Over Bookstore Erotica Readings
  The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. A breathless Daily Beast report that the woman nominated to be the CIA deputy director, Avril D. Haines, owned a small bookstore in the '90s and would occasionally host erotica readings has sparked accusations of sexism.
  June 14, 2013 - KERA North Texas
• CIA deputy slut-shamed over erotica reading
  The Daily Beast sniggers over a bookstore erotica night the first female deputy director hosted 20 years ago        
  June 13, 2013 - Salon.com
• Should prison inmates be allowed to read whatever they choose?
  Werewolf erotica? A history of race relations? The Bible? What should prisoners be reading – and does society have the right to decide for them?
  June 13, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in TIME
  I know that some politicians play with such ideas in their heads. This, in my view, is the sort of political erotica that might satisfy a person but hardly leads to a positive result,Putin responded.
• Nikki Sixx in USA Today
  We're across the street from the Erotica Museum and Frederick's of Hollywood. This is a perfect place for us to be,bassist Nikki Sixx told an estimated 600 screaming fans.
• Martin Amis in Straight.com
  What is obscenity according to A, can be B's erotica. Who takes a call on what is obscene in music videos then? Definitely not a few babus sitting in a Censor office! Would they even decide what dance moves are obscene and how performers should... Deepal Shaw http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepal_Shaw&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHaMz1bHIYg1K5kF7cvqutaeeWiXw Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1473431.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHSdFUpBJZJF0kAK8kdOqX0iW_2ig Apr 1, 2006 33974 43446 erotically Toward the novel's beginning, Amis describes the summer in question as hot, endless, and erotically decisive".