LOVE, PORNOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE

Abstract

Love, as an existential factor, is closely related to death. As even the oldest literary works testify, there is an interlinked syncrasy between love and death, as the two overarching constants of a human life. Love is a gate leading to existence, while death is a negation of love. One of the most erotic texts ever, is an integral part of a monotheistic book: The Bible. It is a kind of paradox to have a love poem among the collection of all those texts that primarily talk or caution about death, be it implicitly or explicitly. In the contemporary world, love has been trivialized or dragged through the mud. Pornography is the best illustration. Pornography decontextualizes and devaluates love. Pornography aims to discredit, not to affirm sex. We live in a time when all the taboos are broken and sexual freedoms have exhausted all the meaning from the words like chastity, romance, love.