This article investigates the importance of obscene vocabulary within the pornographic culture that arises in Europe from the Renaissance onwards, with the explicit wording of sex as a landmark. Therefore, it questions the statute of modern erotic fiction as a literary genre, paying attention to the fetischised conditon of licencious language. A privileged representation of eroticism, obscene words subvert their abstract function as a sign and acquire a corporality that, ultimately, substitute the presence of the real body.
Erotic Literature; Pornography; Obscenity; Aretino; Sade; Henry Miller