Definition of "erotica"

In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.

2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 114

Rather a principal avenue of traffic and distribution of eroticas is the social network of age-peers ([…]).

1970 September, The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, page 224

Some films advertised as minor eroticas are so much in demand by the paying public and these have overshadowed the value of a few seminars which seem to draw only the scholars and the film theorists.

1977, Link: Indian Newsmagazine, volume 19, page 5

Tilson carries work by the late John Lennon, including lithographs, a few signed eroticas and republished drawings.

1993, Milwaukee Magazine, volume 18, page 66

Though the poetic work of Bhikṣu Padmaśrī, Nāgarasarvasva is an erotica, the writer has not followed Vätsyāyana in his work, rather, he has followed Bharata Muni.

2001, Sumati Mutatkar, Suṣamā-kalāśrīḥ: Gems of Literature & Arts, Eastern Book Linkers, page 262

His costume dramas (including eroticas) are all imprinted with the hallmark of this spectacular and lyrical “dream factory” of classical China.

2019, Mia Yinxing Liu, “Introduction”, in Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 17