Pornography and eroticism [Wiccan study]

Pornography and eroticism [Wiccan study] Pornography is a term that came to us at the end of the 19th century (first dictionary in 1899 by Cândido de Figueiredo, according to the Houaiss dating) of the French pornographie. This word had been born about a century before, around 1800, initially with a serious meaning: study (of public health) on prostitution. It was in the middle of the 19th century that it began to be used to designate art, especially that produced in antiquity - at first, painting -, which portrayed obscene themes. The root of the French term was planted in Greek, a language that had words like pórne, "prostitute", and pornos, "who prostitutes", in addition to pornographers, "author of writings on prostitution". Preach was porneion. All of these terms contained the idea of ​​trade, buying and selling. There are etymologists who, digging deeper, see in them the Indo-European root per, "to sell", the same that is present in the Latin pretium, "price". Interestingly, the vocabulary of classical Latin (as recorded by the referential Saraiva dictionary) had no word derived from pórne. In its place there was a prostitute, also a word of commercial origin, which in its literal sense meant “exposed (merchandise)”. In the entry pornography, Douglas Harper's etymological dictionary offers a succinct script of the semantic expansion that led pornography to become what it is today: in 1859 the term was already used (critically) in reference to certain French novels of the time; at the beginning of the 20th century, it reached contemporary visual arts. As for eroticism, it is a word that also has a Greek origin: erotikós, who made a stop in Latin eroticus before landing here in the 16th century, meant "that you have love, passion or intense desire". Term derived from Eros, Greek god of love (Cupid in Roman mythology), never had the negative charge of words derived from porné. It also referred to sexual desire, but that linked to love and not to commerce. In the field of cultural industry, which is where those words remain highly relevant in the contemporary world, the border between eroticism and pornography will never be peaceful. Common sense usually traces it in scenes of explicit sex, which the latter would have and the former would not, but the criterion is misleading: if the erotic can also be explicit, pornography is not always so. As a principle, it can be said that a film, book or painting that gives its subject an artistic treatment (art here fulfills the same role that love played in the original distinction) is erotic, while pornography is only interested in arousing the customer - and making money from it. It happens, of course, that all kinds of moral and aesthetic complications come into play when it comes to separating one thing from the other. What is erotic for one can be - and often is - pornographic for another. Unlike the instinctual sexuality of animals, human sexuality is instinctive and admits variations in relation to the sexual object and purpose. That is why there is a ban on incest, a phenomenon that separates man from the animal. Prohibition puts man in question with his sexuality and brings him back to the animal again through the transgression movement. Pornography originates from the Greek “pornographos” and means “writings about prostitutes”, referring to habits and customs related to prostitution. Pornography is related to sexual debauchery, to what is considered obscene, indecent, being conveyed through images, publications, language, gestures, etc. It is related to aggressiveness, violence and sexual subordination relationships. The word eroticism is derived from Eros, which represented the Greek God of love and passion. Eroticism refers to sensuality and the different ways of provoking arousal and sexual desire, however, linked to love and not to commerce, being an instrument of inspiration for the arts and literature. Eroticism is the poetry of sex. Eroticism implies, but leaves space for the imagination, while pornography is explicit. Sources : https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/sobre-palavras/qual-e-a-diferenca-entre-pornografia-e-erotismo/ https://www.psicológicasdobrasil.com.br/erotismo-x-pornografia/ From Brazil to the World, Blessed be, Paulo César Ebbano Moreira Merlin Instagram: paulocesarmoreit Twitter: EbbanoSaenger Facebook: Paulo Moreira