Fifty Shades of Grey Pornography or Erotica?

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1. Are there grounds for distinguishing 'erotica' from 'pornography'? Discuss with reference to at least two texts that blur the distinction between the two terms. The debate between distinguishing what is pornography and what is erotica, which has gone on for many years, still continues today. Pornography is defined as printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings while erotica is defined as literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire. Originally pornography derives from the Greek word Pornographos that translates to, the depiction of prostitutes. While erotica is defined as sexually explicit literature or art and is derived from the Greek Eros (love) are works of art including literature, photography, sculpture and paintings Susan Sontag distinguishes art from pornography because pornography works in a single minded way, intending to arouse sexually, pornography has no structure no beginning, middle or end just the repetition of sex, language plays an subsidiary role in porn, no art and pornography disregards

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