 is already closer to the mark. But even though Webb’s emphasis on emotions is understandable from an etymological point of view—the term “erotic” derives from the Greek word “eros” meaning love or passion—he does not succeed in spelling out the necessary or sufficient conditions for erotic art.  Man Ray’s photograph The Prayer (1930) shows only the hands, feet, and buttocks of a woman; it is not a sexual depiction in the strict sense and there is no show of emotions. Still, it is widely considered to be an erotic masterpiece. Conversely, Ian McEwan’s novella On Chesil Beach, set in the early 1960s and telling the story of a wedding night that goes horribly wrong, does qualify as “art on a sexual theme related specifically to emotions” and yet it would be misleading to label it as erotic literature.