literotica

Noun

literotica (uncountable)

1. Erotic literature.
   • Whether it’s the tale of the televangelist who meets his match in Hell or the gay moralist who finds the man of his dreams at a circuit party or the skater boy who’s seduced by a Whitman-quoting bear or the Black leatherdaddy with a secret fondness for the color khaki or the Long Island housewife...2001, Ian Philips, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent, San Francisco, Calif.: AttaGirl Press, →ISBN, back cover
   • Sure, most pulps of the day featured horny wrestlers, well-hung lumberjacks, and the like, but it would be a mistake to think that until the 1990s’ rise of “literotica,” serious themes—and anxieties—were altogether absent from gay porn.2007, “From Young, Wild, and Sexy: Bob Cochran (1970)”, in Simon Sheppard, editor, Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 69