Definition of "erotica" []

• Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Reading some good erotica is a great gauge for how sex can be written well – and it ticks all the boxes you mention."
• "Victorian erotica is pretty mindblowing, and I love the historical period."
• "All these characters are full and complete, they have real lives just like anyone else, except that – like a lot of regular fiction – they have something fantastic happen to them, and in erotica it tends to be of a sexual nature."