Pornography Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Sex, Real, Track

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• The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

  Wess Stafford

  Running, Children, Sacrifice

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Feelings, Denial

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Acceptance, Ideas

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• If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Book, Recipes, Release

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• A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Home, Caring, Media

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• If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Hurt, Looks, Done

  "Feminism unmodified: discourses on life and law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.

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• Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

  Richard Fleischer

  Sex, Desire, Crime

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• I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

  Potter Stewart

  Today, Kind, Obscenity

  Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)

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• Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

  Angela Lambert

  Witty, Sex, Hands

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• Let us all improve our personal behavior and redouble our efforts to protect our loved ones and our environment from the onslaught of pornography.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Effort, Environment, Loved Ones

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• Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.

  Charles Rembar

  Witty, Sex, Beholder

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• How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Knows

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• I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Degrade

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. May 14, 2006.

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• My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Home, Long

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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

  Sex, Powerful, Business

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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• At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Women, Dancing, Males

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

  Edward Albee

  Real, Kids, Differences

  Edward Albee (2008). “At Home at the Zoo”, p.34, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Men, Essentials

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One man's pornography is another man's theology.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Theology, Another Man

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 21, 2013

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• Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Safe, Supplies

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• What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Laughter, Men, Genius

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Lying, Moving, Men

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirt, Comeback

  Phoenix "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 (1936)

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