Porn vs. Erotica
 

Just curious,



Do you prefer to read about the same sexual encounters as you are turned on by and select as porn?

Does your reading choices match your viewing choices?

Never really thought about it until you asked. I would have to say yes, as I really seem to enjoy the amatuer stuff.

Hadn't really thought about it....but yeah, I guess they do for me. Curious to see what others have to say.

The whole idea of "porn" vs "erotica" seems to me an artificial dichotomy.

I don't worry about the label, I just enjoy it.

gekkogecko you missed what the question is.... sorry if I was unclear


Do you enjoy the same topics/ sexual adventures in viewable pornography and you do in literature?

I tend to be snobbier with erotic literature. I have to have a good plot and I really admire a well written erotic story.

I'm not as picky with viewable pornography.

Thats about the only thing I can think of...if you were referring to subject matter there isn't really much of a difference with me :)

I've been told that I am too literary when it comes to SEX...I love reading the classics from Henry Miller.Anais Nin,Erica Jung,D.H.Lawrence etc...Even the WEB sites I go to on the net have a social commentary to them.I like to watch porn to but don't have any videos.I do have however Last Tango, Henry & June,Tropic of Cancer,Midnight Cowboy and a few others.Funny thing,all of these writers have been accused at one time of writing "pornography". I do agree with Gekkogecko about the erotica/porn issue though.Like Cassiopela,I'm kind of a snob about what I choose to read and see.I have written a couple of stories that are buried deep in my e-mail folder from a couple of years back with inspiration in the form of an online cyberfest.

I think it's safe to say that the topics are pretty much the same but some of the more abstract themes (bisexual orgies and voyeuristic scenes) don't play out on film the way they do on paper. It's like mainstream films. Some things you can adapt for the movies and some are just so intricate or unusual that you don't know where to begin.

I'm just the opposite of lakritze, don't care what kind it is, just were is it. I have a rather large Porn movie collection and have read everything from classic Erotica to Penthouse Letters.

Re: Porn vs. Erotica
 

Yep & Yep :D

I nwhich case, I still see it as an artificial dichotomy...after all, when I'm reading, I'm still receiving the information through the medium of sight. Doesn't matter to me which format it comes in...or more accurately, which format I want at any particular time is pretty much dependent on my mood. I just sit back and enjoy it, regardless of the label.

Interesting....my imagination far exceeds anything I have seen or have viewed so I find the images available to me/my mind when reading to be nothing like those in a visual media format. So for me it's not at all artificial.

I think you have still missed the primary question...do you enjoy reading (content not physiology) about the same scenarios that you enjoy viewing in pornographic films? If you see no difference between the minds participation in the creation of images with the written word and pornographic films then I can see why for you, your answer is such.

I'm not sure Lilith was really trying to set viewable pornography and reading erotic literature as a dichotomy.

For me there definitely is a difference however. When I read a story I want to be able to imagine every single detail, and a good erotic story allows me to that. I want to know exactly how hard the cock was or exactly how it felt to be touched, etc. But when view porn I don't necessarily need that much detail. Its more visibly titillating for me and I don't have to do as much imagining...make sense?

There's a definite difference to me. I don't care much to watch two guys fucking in a video, but on paper it can be very hot.

But there are cases where I like it either on paper or video... so it just depends.

In my case I like a plot and maybe a little romance in my erotic reading. If it's a film...I'm not as picky.