pornography quotes

Thisisthekind of show togive pornographya bad name.

- Clive Alexander Barnes
  Reviewing Oh, Calcutta!, NewYork Times,18  Jun.

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

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  'Pornography and Obscenity'.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

- Henry Valentine Miller
  Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

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

- Susan Sontag
  In Partisan Review, Spring.

Pornography was the great vice of the Seventies; plutographythe graphic depiction of the acts of the richis the great vice of the Eighties.

-Tom (Thomas Kennerley) Wolfe
  In the SundayTimes Magazine,10 Jan.