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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rafilar" data-source="post: 1473370" data-attributes="member: 10742">As to the difference between erotica and porn, I believe the famous comment from Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward on the topic of pornography sums it up nicely: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." Of course, then Justice John Marshall Harlan said, "One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric." So, it's all an opinion question.Of course, the actual definition of obscenity  used by the Supreme Court goes something like this (this is a three-part test established in the case Miller v. California (1973)): "A work may be considered legally obscene is (1) the average person, applying contemporary standards of the particular community, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (2) the work depicts or describes in a patently offensive way sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable law or authoritatively construed; and (3) the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." (This quote comes from my U.S. Government Textbook -- Government by the People, National Version, Twentieth Edition, by Burns et. al-- and they were paraphrasing the Supreme Court opinion in the case Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305 (1997).) There is no actual legal definition of erotica or pornography, so obscenity will have to do. Now if we can all just agree that porn is obscene, we'd have definitions for both of those too--if sexual materials met the definition of obscenity, they would be porn, and if they didn't, they would be erotica... of course, then we'd have to define "sexual materials"...I hope that definition helps the discussion... though it probably opens up as many questions as it answers.Oh, and as to the question "porn vs. drugs"... well, I think the liquid that tasted like really good brains is probably more of a "candy" than anything else. Hmm... mind flayer snack foods... no nutritional value, but they sure taste good...</blockquote>

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