Noun
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Source: WordNetPornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. Gloria Steinem
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. Isabel Allende
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? Lara St. John
Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain. Gloria Steinem
I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story. Erica Jong
Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. Andrea Dworkin