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Some believe defining [[eroticism]] may be difficult since perceptions of what is erotic fluctuate. For example, a voluptuous nude painting by [[Peter Paul Rubens]] could have been considered erotic or [[pornographic]] when it was created for a private patron in the 17th century. Similarly in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]], [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s sexually explicit novel ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' was considered [[obscene]] and unfit for publication and circulation in many nations thirty years after it was completed in [[1928]], but may now be part of standard literary school texts in some areas. In a different context, a sculpture of a [[phallus]] in Africa may be considered a traditional symbol of potency though not overtly erotic.
==Difference with pornography==
A further distinction needs be made between erotic art and pornography, which also depicts scenes of love-making and is intended to evoke [[erotic]] arousal, but is by definition not fine art. However, no such objective distinction exists; the (lack of) distinction is sometimes facetiously summed up as "That which I like is erotica; that which ''you'' like is pornography."
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