erotica

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As might be expected, the kimono features heavily in Japanese erotica from time immemorial, and gravure idols are …

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  1. plural noun Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire.

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  • More out of laziness than any sense of design, she left the old soda fountain, which divided the primary business, children's books, from the secondary one--feminist tracts, erotica, anything written by women and, in some cases, anything about women. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • Someone had sent him -- or so he hoped -- a piece of homemade erotica, a tape to scratch his libido, stroke his ego, free his pent-up sexual energies. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • Fuzzbelly has a really great short story that is an examination on the very idea of gay erotica, and how Fuzzbelly decides he would rather depict "actual" gay sex than the somewhat absurdest nature of erotica. —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • As might be expected, the kimono features heavily in Japanese erotica from time immemorial, and gravure idols are … —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • But let's shelve it in the "erotica" section, shan't we? —  PunkAssBlog.com
 

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  1. Greek erōtika, from neuter pl. of erōtikos, erotic; see erotic.
 

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