Erotic art tends to produce sexual feelings or thoughts, often with images of aroused genitalia.
The value, meanings and effects of erotic art reside in the mind and senses of the beholder. Pornography often depicts explicit sex acts and, like erotic art, can arouse sexual feelings or thoughts. Ultimately, it is difficult to differentiate between the two. Erotica and pornography are extremely subjective and personal concepts. Since time immemorial, established institutions have succeeded in controlling a society's beliefs and actions, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.