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Erotica is simply high-class pornography better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

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Andrea Dworkin
Age: 58 †
Born: 1946
Born: September 26
Died: 2005
Died: April 9
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
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Novelist
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Camden
New Jersey
Andrea Rita Dworkin
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