What's the difference between eroticism and exoticism?
Eroticism
Definition:
(n.) Erotic quality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The intent of this paper is to provide concerned professionals dealing with various aspects of human sexuality with information relevant to anal eroticism.
(2) Penetration will only occur once you have established a sense of levity, safety and trust between the both of you, plus a high level of non-penetrative eroticism.
(3) It's extremely common to have fantasies that involve coercive sex, group sex, or some other kind of "forbidden" eroticism; in fact, many people have fantasies of which they're utterly ashamed.
(4) It doesn’t take an art critic to notice the eroticism of an artwork, but perhaps it takes more than a machine to understand precisely what constitutes “adult content”.
(5) So in Northanger Abbey, Catherine is introduced to "a whole new world of eroticism ... where sex knows no boundaries" by Henry.
(6) Fourier famously predicted work could become play – its qualities could absorb the qualities of aimlessness, humour, even eroticism.
(7) The entry on Belmondo in Marlene Dietrich's A-B-C "New blood, new looks, new vitality, new fluidity, new eroticism, new normality for that malady-ridden strain of today's neurotic actors."
(8) The Greeks and Romans associated eroticism and (vague) constancy with extramarital desire, rather than any conjugal paradigm.
(9) In the discussion of Disney and his work (based, in part on writings about him) it is suggested that he exhibited traits associated with anal eroticism, which raises an interesting question about the popularity of his work with the American public.
(10) Until recently she was best known for her international best-seller Wetlands, a frank debut novel about the sex life of an 18-year-old that has been described as everything from literary eroticism to undiluted pornography.
(11) Being sexually adventurous often leads to surprising eroticism.
(12) During 6 to 10 years of corticosteroid therapy there occurred substantial reduction of hypertrichosis, disappearance of temporal recession, and decrease in eroticism.
(13) "Eroticism," she once said, "is very important in attracting people's souls."
(14) The recent liberalization of attitudes towards sexuality has brought with it the desire by some individuals to seek alternate methods of sexual stimulation and gratification, among them an exploration of anal eroticism.
(15) Or he may need to arouse himself with an anger response in order to summon sexual energy (the best eroticism is accompanied by a little aggression).
(16) The paper compares selected examples of age-structured homosexuality to understand same-sex eroticism as a "predictable" outcome of particular combinations of age, gender, and kinship.
(17) The following emotions were studied: fear-anxiety, anger-aggression, joy-laughter, love-eroticism, love-tenderness, and sadness-tears.
(18) His complex and beautiful works align the contours of the car with the welcoming eroticism of the female body, ideas that were (and still are) such a feature of product-promotion techniques.
(19) A case of transmission of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) associated retrovirus (ARV) by brachioproctic eroticism is described.
(20) The attitudes of 52 counselors and trainees toward homosexuality showed respondents were less likely to accept homosexual persons in eroticized contexts, more likely in noneroticized contexts, with mixed acceptance for homosexuals in sensitive professional positions.
Exoticism
Definition:
(n.) The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Writers who claimed to love and understand the places and peoples they wrote about must have seen them through a prism of eurocentricity, he argued, whereby they fetishised their exoticism and strangeness, and unconsciously patronised them.
(2) In Paris, where he lived from 1961 until 1963, he became acquainted with the proponents of négritude, the belief in a common black identity, though rejected its exoticism, feeling that South Africa's urban maelstrom left it looking redundant.
(3) But this isn't a career that needs any added exoticism.
(4) In other roles O'Toole would be very much the ladies' man, but this element of exoticism and danger never entirely left him.
(5) The way Iranian women dress has been a brand used both by the Islamic republic, which wishes to portray the country as uniformly pious, and western onlookers who find the exoticism of the hijab irresistible.
(6) Tabuleiro do Acarajé, Consolação Vatapá , acarajé , caruru : this exotic mouthful of sounds, ripe for rolling around the tongue, is matched only by the exoticism of the ingredients themselves, which come together to make one of the most emblematic dishes in north-eastern Brazil's superb cuisine.
(7) And dear Sir David Attenborough ; if you want to satisfy British interest in my nation's exoticism and a history of "zoological discovery", tell your fans to hit the Google button.
(8) Teesside’s lack of similar exoticism must have come as quite a culture shock yet Ramírez, much as he misses idyllic days spent fishing from the banks of the Uruguay river, explains he would be happy to see his nine-month-old daughter grow up in his new habitat.
(9) In his review of the original exhibition, the Guardian's Adrian Searle wrote: "I think it odd that anyone could be offended by Chris Ofili's rich and complex paintings, with their gorgeous, playful parodies of exoticism and ethnicity, their obsessive details, their wayward glamour."