Word: erotica
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Recently, a friend of mine succinctly explained the difference between pornography and erotica: Lowbrows beat off to pornography. High-brows beat off to erotica. With the release of her album, Erotica, and her much-hyped coffee table pornography book, Sex, Madonna demonstrates just how synonymous the two terms really...
...latest musical incarnation, Madonna is Dita, the dominatrix persona and sex hostess of both Sex and Erotica. She intones over thumpy house beats on most of the album, which should keep DJ's mixing and remixing for months. In the title track Dita asks, "If I take you from behind/Push myself into your mind/When you least expect it/Will you try and reject it." The naughty little form/context twist is that at standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into...
...Erotica and the Perfect Moment: Robert Mapplethorpe in the History of Photography and Pornography--by Michael Bronski, author. Sunday, April 5, 3 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium. Free. Movies...
Laced with erotica and humor, the play--written and directed by senior Orion Ross--is a murder mystery that mocks the debates over sexual identity, gender roles and the sexual saturation of the advertising industry...
...this a healthy trend? Psychologists generally give it their blessing. They see homemade erotica as a safe way to spice up a couple's sex life; there's the thrill of the forbidden but none of the danger of, say, an affair. "Frankly, I'd wonder about anyone with a camera who hadn't thought of doing it," offers Kate Wachs, a Chicago psychologist. "It's usually a fun thing done by people who have absolute trust in each other, are relaxed about their sexuality and adventuresome. It's the equivalent of making love on the beach or the kitchen...