eroticism, n.Definitions

Eroticism is assenting to life up to the point of death.

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Eroticism is a violation of the very being of its practitioners... a violation bordering on death, bordering on murder.

Eroticism is using a feather as a sex aid. Kinky is when you use the whole duck.

Eroticism is the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes.

Eroticism is different from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

Eroticism is defined by intermittence... the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve)... it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: The staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.