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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

  Symphony, Trying, Bars

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• I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, Dresses, Becoming

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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

  Night, Lasts, Privacy

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.313, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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• Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sports, Sex, Motivation

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• I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.

  Steve Grand

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, People

  Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.

  Grimes

  Teenager, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Use, Want, Energy

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• The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

  Pola Negri

  Tired, Leaving, Brutality

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• 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

  Communication, Messages, Excitement

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• If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Commitment

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• Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

  Seth Lloyd

  Knows

  Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.32, Random House

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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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Acceptance, Land, Violence

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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• Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dna, Abuse, Nuance

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

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• Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around you, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.

  Michael Kimmel

  Beautiful, Sexy, Jobs

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Structure, Representation

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Children, Homeless

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.

  Pope John Paul II

  Littles, Too Much, Dimensions

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• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream, Real, Men

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

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• It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

  Woody Allen

  Gossip, Knows

  "Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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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

  Jobs, Business, Acceptance

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• In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.

  Anjem Choudary

  Drinking, Alcohol, Wealth

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

  Jim Goad

  Violence, Show Me, Shows

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• Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Views, Erode, Spirit

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