Adult Magazine: The New Female Erotica

The Daily Beast published an article recently about a new adult magazine that explores sexually explicit literature and photography and asks what differentiates erotica from porn.

The tri-annual magazine is produced by women, but Adult manages to achieve the precise level of taste that can be difficult to obtain when printing, for example, graphic images of women masturbating. Its strong literary presence, combined with artistic photography, allows Adult to be so much more than the conventional idea of erotica.

"What I really thought was missing was a magazine that was very intelligent and also very beautiful… I [wanted] something that satisfied my need for a really good sentence, as well as hot and intense erotic action," says Prickett.

You can read the whole article here. Personally, I do not think erotica and porn are the same. Erotica is about telling a story and creating an emotional connection, not just about the act of sex but the feelings and emotions behind it. Pornography in my opinion is just about the raw act of sex with no attachment, it's kind of cold and meaningless, where erotic literature puts a story around it, you get to learn about characters, their emotions, thoughts and feelings around sensuality and sexuality. Also, lets not forget that erotica is fiction, whereas pornography is showing real people engaging in sexual acts. Erotica leaves a lot to the imagination of its readers and allows you to fill in any gaps depending on your own thoughts and imagination.