Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!ora!ambar From: igor!rutabaga!jls@uunet.uu.net (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: does healthy, mutual erotica exist? Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 03:23:29 GMT References: <9103191737.AA01224@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <18603@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: O'Reilly and Associates Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 22 Approved: ambar@ora.com >But is it erotic? I asked this question here (or perhaps in another >newsgroup) about a year ago. Does *anyone* find that the stories in >this magazine makes their pulse quicken, their juices flow, and their >desire turn to something sweaty and fun? Does anyone find that they >cannot read it through without interruption so that their fingers turn >to more concrete lasciviousness? Last time I asked this, not a single >person anwered in the positive. However literate and ideologically >pure, unless it turns someone on, in a sexual not merely intellectual >fashion, then it is *not* erotica, regardless of how it advertises >itself. My definition of the difference between erotica and pornography is that I can masturbate to pornography. Or, as Woody Allen put it when he was asked if sex was dirty: "It is if you're doing it right". I'd rather be politically incorrect than bored any day. -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own. Duh. Like you'd ever be able to find a company (or, for that matter, very many people) with opinions like mine. -- "When I want your opinion, I'll read it in your entrails."