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Erotica comes in many forms, shapes and sizes so to speak. At its heart, erotica is about love, whether it is self-love or giving love to others, that love can be told in writing or shown in art, photographs and movies. But it does not always equal happily ever after or even romantic love, with kids and the white picket fence. Just because a book has the moniker erotica does not mean your going to get what you’re looking for.
When I started reading, I started with romance. Historical romance to be exact. The type of romance that was always happily ever after and never just about the sex, though these types of romance had that a plenty.
When I read my first official erotic book years later, I instantly saw the difference. The resolution had nothing to do with the romance side of love, but was about the gratification or the physical side of love. The name of that book was “Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones” by Erica Jong. While it was rich in history, which is why I picked it up, it was also about a woman who was not the typical heroine in the books I was familiar with. She was a woman who knew what her assets were and she used them to her advantage until the conclusion of the story. It was a tale of sexual discovery among other things.
Now there are many publishers who publish erotica, but from research and experience, there are marked differences that are evident if you know what to look for.
Ellora’s Cave or Jasmine Jade was one of the first mainstream publishers to take the bawdiness of erotica and match it with the romantic side of love coining this type of erotica as Romantica. Soon many other publishers followed suit, creating in essence a dominating style of writing that is growing each year to include many genres with in genres such as paranormal, fantasy, glbt, etc. (Ellora’s Cave also has a line called Exotika which is their equivalent of “true” erotica)
The point this reviewer is making, is while this type of erotica is still selling (romantica), people still like their erotica raw, earthy, and not necessarily with a happily ever after ending. Unfortunately people lump together all erotica under the same umbrella so to speak and this is not necessarily correct, because not all erotica is equal. Erotica is dirty, it’s raw, it’s about the sexual journey, and it is not always forgiving. But it does what it is supposed to do: titillate the senses.
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