What is the difference between eroticism and pornography? I think of Reiner Kunze. In his book “The lovely years,” he tells of the uproar that the film “The Legend of Paul and Paula” caused in his town at the time. The film was accused of being pornography. Yet naked skin was actually nothing special in … Continue reading THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EROTICISM AND PORNOGRAPHY
“The first thing I notice is the smell: of leather, wood, polish with a slight citrus scent.” E.L.James: Fifty shades of gray It takes E L James a page to describe Christian Grey’s “chamber of torments” before she moves forward in the plot. She begins her decided description with the smell of the room. When … Continue reading To describe the smell of rooms
Sandra at her desk, bent over some papers. I’m sitting in an armchair a few meters away, reading an erotic novel on my Kindle. I can hear her rustling the pages, occasionally hammering away at the keyboard of her laptop. She lets out a deep sigh that seems to come from deep within. Long drawn … Continue reading SOUNDS IN EROTIC LITERATURE
Her sweat smelled as fresh as sea wind, the tallow of her hair as sweet as nut oil, her sex like a bouquet of water lilies, her skin like apricot blossoms … and the combination of all these components resulted in a perfume so rich, so balanced, so magical, that everything Grenouille had smelled so … Continue reading Odors and their effects
For days now, I can’t get a liver spot out of my mind. Now it is not so that I would not have already seen many liver spots, quite also at piquant places. In this respect, I am a bit surprised that this image has haunted me since I first read about it. But there … Continue reading The function of physical details: Imogen’s liver spot
