“ A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like. ”
- Spider Robinson- Copy
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“ Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are. ”
- Larry Flynt- Copy
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“ A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? ”
- Stanislaw Lec- Copy
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“ There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 879
“ The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ”
- Gloria Leonard- Copy
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“ Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand. ”
- Angela Lambert- Copy
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“ Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. ”
- Tony Hancock- Copy
- 2.6K
“ How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive. ”
- Nancy Reagan- Copy
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“ Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female. ”
- Hugh Hefner- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic. ”
- Philip Slater- Copy
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