User blog:Don'tHateOnFate/Wikia Tips - Erotica vs Pornography

After searching around Wikia, and reading the Terms of Use over and over again, it is beginning to make sense that the genre, Erotica, is not considered pornography. Believe me, if you know me, you know I know my stuff whenever it comes to sexual topics. If you are unsure of the difference between Erotica and Pornography, this is where this blog comes in. Oh, and also, this lecture is age-friendly.

So, from the words of a great erotica author herself, Miss Krimson, I give you her view on Erotica vs Pornography(with my own edits, of course):

Erotica vs Pornography
Pornography is symbolically unidimensional. It has only one purpose and objective, which is to sexually arouse the viewer. Erotica, on the other hand, is polysemic. It has several layers of meaning. Either depicted in paint, film, song, music, photography, sculpture, poetry, literature or the spoken word, the audience can relate to the piece in several different levels, possibly but not necessarily sexual, and can reflect upon its alternative meanings.

"What's the difference between erotic art and pornography?"

Lots of people want to ban pornography but no one really talks about banning erotic art. Both are representations. How do we draw the line between good erotica and bad pornography?

Pornography Pornography usually evacuates love, commitment, closeness, kindness, and goodness out of sex. It is cheap and designates cheap thrills, as such. Porn depicts very limited story-lines which end in a death or an orgasm. The viewer after a few porn films becomes desensitized and needs more and more sex to be aroused or could fail to be aroused altogether in the long run.

Impotency/infertility is a huge problem, rooted a lot of the time, in the psychological drawbacks of viewing porn.

Erotica Erotica only delves into how sex is a natural impulse and a part of a much larger, fuller, complex, interesting and deeper story. It depicts sex as a fact of life, like eating or defecating. It's normal, it does not end in a heart-attack or murder or orgasm. It does not involve extreme exercise or acrobatics. It is just the act of lovemaking: An act of secure, maybe dangerous but largely realistic tenderness. People do not suffer psychologically from erotica.

-Miss Krimson

Implenting Erotica On Your Wiki
Naturally, erotica should not be the main topic of a wiki. Ever. If you do, however, want to add some aspects of it I would recommend putting lots of warning signs and obstacles. If you happen to be an admin on your wiki, I would highly suggest trying to read the erotica for yourself to regulate whether it is pornography or not.