Erotica and Porn

Honestly, i really dunno the difference. I don't even know na there's a thing such as erotica. I only heard it sa class. Pero, from what i understood sa class is that the difference lies in the story. Parang, yung porn, for arousal lang talaga. The stuff people look at the internet. Something like that. Erotica, on the other hand, has a story. For example, sex and the city. Its not purely about sex. I mean, there's a plot. And the sexual parts are just, well, part of the plot.

So, people may have different qualifications in classifying whether it is erotics or porn. For some "conservative" people, sex and the city may be porn already, and for some "liberated" people, the stuff they download on the internet is just erotica. I mean, individual differences. (yeah, psych eh. haha).

So, quote ko lang yung nabasa ko sa internet. I forgot yung site eh. Pinabasa lang sakin ng brother ko cause i asked his opinion about this topic. So, here it is:
“If porn is work that serves no purpose other than causing sexual arousal, then erotica is usually explicit material that has artistic merit beyond its ability to arouse. Erotica, for that matter need not even arouse. Somtimes the sex in an erotic story makes us laugh or cringe or cry. Where porn depends on its ability to inspire a physical response, erotica has something broader to say about human beings as sexual creatures whether it gets us off or not…"