erotica
- noun
- /ɪˈrɒtɪkə/
- NSFW
- After all, the typewriter girl was by this point a stock character in popular fiction and erotica.
- exposure to erotica
OK, old school erotica about this dude.
- OK, old school erotica about this dude.
- I would say that the way that I indulge myself in the art form of erotica and pornography, it kind of like adds to my sexual experience.
- Smut, erotica, spice, whatever you want to call it is something very popular that we put into our books.
- I am not arguing against erotica.
Examples
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It's my personal collection of erotica.
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I have, upstairs, the most unique collection of erotica.
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OK, old school erotica about this dude.
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A higher percentage of younger women used the internet to watch erotica than older women.
Academic text (2006) -
Stimulated by his dirty books, his collection of erotica, he decided which fantasy to act out in real life, didn't he?
Fiction book (1995) -
Slater was intrigued by erotica but was reticent to try it until now.
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Her dissertation examines relations among explicit representations of sex in American postmodern fiction, queer erotica, and post-WWII sexual subcultures.
Academic text (2017) -
There is also zombie erotica, zombie science fiction, zombie Westerns, zombie Steampunk, and zombie just about everything else.
Academic text (2010) -
Text cybersex has been described as "coauthored interactive erotica," since it proceeds as a "purely textual activity" (Waskul 2007: 282).
Academic text (2018) -
Many readers enjoy exploring the themes of romance and intimacy found in erotica.
Synonyms
Photos, films, or writing that show sex to make people want sex
Images and films that show sex and naked people to make people want sex
Books, pictures or films made mainly to make people feel sexual desire
Words, pictures, or stories about sex that people find rude
A film for adults that shows sexual scenes or explicit content
How Sexual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word erotica comes from the Greek name Eros, meaning 'love' or 'sexual desire', and the ending -ica, which makes a word for a group of things, like the related word erotic. So, erotica are works made to excite sexual desire.