I was looking around the Internet

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2. What's erotic is subjective

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Most porn is kind of dull and I wonder if that isn't why there seems to be a demand for more extreme types.

To fix it, oy. I don't know. There is the occasional random scenes in movies, I'm thinking of two by Robert Rodriguez of all people, on in "Desperado" and another in "Planet Terror" while they didn't show much in the way of nudity and were very short scences, were quite erotic.

It had to do with the setting, the lighting and hints of activity. I think the charectors being reciprocal, without being cheesy (even in a Rodriguez film) helped as well. That isn't to say what's erotic shouldn't or wouldn't include nudity, or explicit acts.

It is a problem.

Young people are learning 'how to' about sex via pornagraphy. I was talking to a community health nurse who said they're going straight to sex toys, not understanding the build up before release. A bit scary. Then you have the recent religious oppression revival types with their resistance to sex education and 'purity balls' Where do you think those kids are going to go?

As an interesting aside, a fairly new genre of books--urban fantasy uses the erotic a lot, although most of it seems to be sexist old fashioned bodice rippers only with werewolves and vampires insread of cowboys and pirates. Many of these books are written by women, and a few of these women seem to be able to stay erotic without being exploitative.