| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun erotic.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (erotic) | 1. An erotic person.[Wordnet]. 2. An amorous composition or poem.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EROTICS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EROTICS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Erotics /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] n. English-language university slang for electronics. Often used by hackers in Helsinki, maybe because good electronics excites them and makes them warm. Source: Jargon File. | ||
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Common Expressions: erotic
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Erotic art in Pompeii (low quality) | This page collects erotic images of paintings and objects in Pompeii of comparably low quality. These are often not yet fully restored (and may never be), or have not been at the time the photos were made, or are relatively bad scans, or low resolution. If you have higher quality versions of any of these images, please remove the low quality version and add the high quality version to the Erotic art in Pompeii page. (references) | ||
| Erotic cake | An erotic cake is a cake which, while typically using the ingredients of other dessert cakes, is frosted and sometimes shaped to represent sexual acts and organs. Often sexually related expressions are written on the surface with icing, such as More than a mouthful and Happy 50th - ride 'em hard. The cakes are most often baked and prepared by a retailer who specializes in the style, and are presented to an individual during a festivity limited to adults, such as a bachelor party or a birthday party. (references) | ||
| Erotic dance | Erotic dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is the stimulation or arousal of erotic or sexual thoughts or actions. (references) | ||
| Erotic electrostimulation | Erotic electrostimulation (also known as E-stim or electrosex), is a human sexual practice involving the application of low current electricity to the body using a special apparatus (such as a TENS unit or Violet wand) for purposes of sexual stimulation. Erotic electrostimulation has been particularly associated with BDSM activities, although its use is becoming more "mainstream." Different sorts of electrodes are used for erotic electrostimulation, such as specially designed vaginal plugs, vulval skin electrodes, anal plugs, cock rings, catheters, cock-and-ball torture (CBT) boards, etc. Electrodes usually require an electrically conductive gel to be applied before use. A large variety of devices are available. (references) | ||
| Erotic fantasy | Erotic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction and utilizes erotica in a fantasy setting. These stories can essentially cover any of the other subgenres of fantasy, such as High fantasy, Contemporary fantasy, or even Historical fantasy. (references) | ||
| Erotic furniture | Erotic furniture is furniture that can act as an aid to sexual intercourse. The most common form of furniture employed for sex is the bed, but couches and sofas come a close second. These are not strictly erotic furniture, as their primary use is not erotic. (references) | ||
| Erotic horror | Dark fantasy stories in which sexual imagery or the description of physical sex is blended with horrific overtones or storylines. (references) | ||
| Erotic love | A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Erotic massage | Erotic massage is the use of massage techniques for erotic purposes. (references) | ||
| Erotic sexual denial | Erotic sexual denial, also known as orgasm denial, is a sexual practice and a form of power exchange where a person is kept in the plateau phase of the human sexual response cycle for an extended length of time. This is usually done as part of a BDSM game. Depending on the nature of the game, they may either be allowed an orgasm at the end (in which case, the orgasm is generally much stronger than normal), or deliberately denied one, in which case they will generally feel strong feelings of sexual frustration. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: erotic
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Erotic Literature | Antiquities | Erotic Literature. See Elegia; Novels and Romances; Priapeia. (references) | |
| Erotic mania | Law | EROTIC MANIA, med. jur. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers. Vide Mania. (references) | |
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