homoerotica

[hoh-moh-i-rot-i-kuh]

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. written works, usually fiction, dealing with sexual relationships between people of the same gender.

2. sexually explicit art, photographs, sculptures, or the like, featuring people of the same gender.

Word History and Origins

Origin of homoerotica¹

First recorded in 1920–25, for an earlier sense; 1990–95, for the current sense; homo- ( def. ) + erotica ( def. )

Example Sentences

Titled “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again,” it stars a full cross-section of his epochal creations: The Soup Cans and Marilyns of the early 1960s, which held up a mirror to American commodity culture; the experimental films of his Factory years; the society portraits, homoerotica and almost-abstractions of his last two decades.

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“There’s only so much you can say about imperialism, geopolitical structures, ritual torture execution, homoerotica, sexual humiliation, drug abuse and bad food during a game of tennis,” he said.

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Eventually Mr. Bianchi would abandon his job as a lawyer to take up art and to produce a series of books of soft-core homoerotica.

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The video/full-blown homoerotica is as over the top as the song, and does it real justice – Robbie in a scarf and dungarees, Jason holding a log up to God, and hand mirrors on the beach – the sheer sensual surrealism makes it one of the best videos of all time.

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