Nick Sabalausky:
That categorizational difficulty only exists because "porn" and "erotic art" realistically *are* the same thing, the only difference is the speaker's positive/negative spin and the compulsion of certain factions in the art world to feel ethically insulated from the works of the less "artsy" factions.
Despite them being not always easy to tell apart, it doesn't mean they are the same thing. In your brain there are several different subsystems designed for different purposes, and "porn" and "erotic art" don't stimulate the same areas, despite they have some common traits. This can even be measured experimentally with brain imaging since many years.
Bye, bearophile
