Honors 141: Cleopatra

Sarah E. Insley
October 31, 2002
Her Infinite Variety

Erotica

I. Erotica vs. Pornography
a. Pornography: no widely accepted modern definition; the common element in all definitions is that the material is sexually explicit
b. Pornographic vs. Erotic
i. Pornographic = generally viewed as material that violates people's moral standards
ii. artistic or erotic = sexual materials people find acceptable
c. Pornography vs. obscenity
i. Obscenity: material that has been judged by the courts to have violated specific statutes pertaining to sexually explicit material (ie whether the material violates community standards of acceptability and whether it involves minors)
1. books, movies, and even advertisements that are acceptable today could have been judged obscene earlier history
II. Cleopatra in Erotica
a. Pin ups
i. Humorous sexy
1. Miss Piggy
ii. Suggestive/Powerful Sexy
1. German Poster
2. Sketch
iii. Artistic
1. Photograph
2. Exotic Ladies
b. Magazines
i. Coveted Beauty
1. Spanish Magazine
2. Esquire
ii. Silly/frivolous
1. Liberty
2. Cavalier
iii. Cleopatra from the 1940s
1. The American Weekly
iv. Sexually Explicit
1. Real
2. Playboy 1960s
3. Vanity Fair
4. Playboy 2001
c. Books
i. Use of her image to attract readers
ii. Erotic Literature
1. Cleopatra's Blonde Sex Rival
2. Cleopatra
d. Movies (EXPLICIT)
i. "The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra"
ii. "The Notorious Cleopatra"
iii. "Irresistible"
e. Miscellaneous
i. Lighters
ii. Cards
iii. Puzzles
f. Why? The Psychology behind Cleopatra Pornography

References:
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Pornography. 1999-2002. < http://www.psc.uc.edu/sh/SH_Pornography.htm> (22 October 2002)