Erotica Quote by Tiffany Reisz

“I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

“Erotica is not just words written as sex scenes.”

— Alyssa Edge

“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as it's written.”

— Gregor Collins

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

“It’s not often that you see this level of complexity in the erotic romance genre. This felt more on par with something written by…

— Emma Paul

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

— Gloria Steinem

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative…

— Roxane Gay

Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.

— Richard Summerbell

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde