"eroticism" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to sexual passion or desire. For example, "She read a novel that explored the sensuality and eroticism of relationships."
To a degree this explains the charged and explicit eroticism of much of his work – though it should be noted that Schiele also painted landscapes throughout his working life.
Schiele's work was already expressionistic and daring, taking Klimt's safely decorative eroticism a bold leap further with his figurative distortions, mannered elongations and sexual frankness.
But in the hands of a skilled artist such as Duras the technique has a strange, compelling power, especially when she dealt in subjective experiences such as eroticism, grief, terror or joy.
The family-centred exuberance of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", with its levitating priest and earth-eating orphan, or nearly 20 years later the ripe eroticism of "Love in the Time of Cholera" are markedly tropical.Mr García Márquez is repeatedly called a chief proponent of "magic realism".
In a small room off this gallery are examples of his easy, realistic eroticism.
The bill does not just fail to differentiate between pornography, indecency and eroticism.
She points (as others have) to the male brothel scene in "Redburn", to the pretty boys and dandies in the novels, to the intimacies between Ishmael and Queequeg in "Moby Dick", and to the amazingly frank eroticism elsewhere in that book.
From the violent eroticism of de Sade's works, such as "Justine", comes the concept of sadism: sexualised fantasies involving pain and restraint.
She missed her native tongue's licentiousness:...the clitoris in my throat vibrating, sensitive, pulsating, exploding in the orgasm of Romanian.Like her great émigré counterparts, the Russian Joseph Brodsky and the Pole Czeslaw Milosz, she eventually began to write in English, adding poignant notes of exile to her themes of honesty, humour and eroticism.
Look at his "West-östlicher Divan" love poems, for instance, with their Mediterranean lightness, wit and playful eroticism, or his "Italienische Reise".Goethe's restless curiosity led him to develop theories about everything from the structure of bones to the properties of colour.
He admits he is toning down the eroticism in some of his larger works so that they can hang in public museums.
