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• The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

  Gloria Leonard

  Witty, Sex, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.

  Martin Amis

  Sex, Real, Want

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• What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Sex

  "The Pornographic Imagination" (1967)

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• I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.

  Karan Mahajan

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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

  Change, Historical, Enemy

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• More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Believe, Matter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.

  Vince Gilligan

  Internet, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.

  Richard Posner

  Sacrifice, Government, Liberty

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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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, Consumers, High Class

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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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

  Book, Men, Majority

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• The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

  Michael Parenti

  Jobs, Defense, Four

  Michael Parenti (1995). “Against Empire”, p.166, City Lights Books

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• Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Art

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fiction Stories, World, Common

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.133, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

  Germaine Greer

  Real, Love Is, Self

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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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

  Sex, Law, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

  Susan Sontag

  Opening Up, Healthy, Ordinary

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• I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Dirty, Book

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• 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

  Women, Believe, Bears

  Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 5 (1981)

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• It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Children, Violence

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• Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it

  Pat Sajak

  Political, Kind, Difficult

  "Sleaze as Political Biography: The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein". www.tribuneindia.com. September 04, 2005.

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• The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

  Alice Munro

  Seductive, Romance, Despair

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

  Storm Jameson

  Exercise, Lust, Showing Up

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• When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Parent, Use

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Sadism, Males

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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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

  Pain, Violence, Mystery

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