Pornography Quotes
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The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.
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More Pornography Quotes
Pornography has been so thickly glossed over with the patina of chic these days in the name of verbal freedom and sophisication… Part of the problem is that those who traditionally have been the most vigorous opponents of porn are often those same people who shudder at the explicit mention of any sexual subject… There can be no equality in porn, no female equivalent, no turning of the tables in the name of bawdy fun. Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, desgined to dehumanize women… Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propoganda.
Susan Brownmiller— Against Our Will (1975)
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or Pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
tim berners-lee— "The Guardian profile : Tim Berners-Lee"(12 August 2005)
The difference between Pornography and erotica is lighting.
— Gloria Leonard
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.
Marshall McLuhan— Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations [...], on nonhuman creatures [...], and on the planet itself [...].
robin morgan— "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape", 1974 in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist.
Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate Pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
camille paglia— p. 111 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
Pornography is about dominance and often pain. Erotica is about mutuality and always pleasure.
— Gloria Steinem "Erotica vs Pornography", in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)
Pornography is not a monolith, either of apolitical pleasure or of unpleasurable power.
— Linda Williams, Hard core: power, pleasure, and the "frenzy of the visible" (1989), p 170.
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
— Marshall McLuhan, in a letter to Clare Westcott (26 November 1975), published in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 514
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas Pornography only adds to the murk.
— 1962 Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.
What Pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan Sontag— 1967 In Partisan Review, Spring.
But fantasy kills imagination, Pornography is death to art.
iris murdoch— The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
It is not Pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.
josé saramago— Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena. Interview Programa Jô Soares, 1997.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core Pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.
potter stewart— Concurring, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964).
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was Pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
laura antoniou— p. 13 ("Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny")
Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing Pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
warren farrell— p. 289. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
The Pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
christopher hitchens— "The State Within the State" (1991)
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child Pornography.
judith krug— "Libraries vs. Police in a Suit Sparked by Porn; Kent Case Centers on People's Rights and Protections" by Jeffrey M. Barker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (August 13, 2002)
Show me an abuse of women in society, I'll show it to you made sex in the Pornography. 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. You will find them being hurt in just that way.
catharine mackinnon— "Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech" (1984), p. 188
Far from poisoning the mind, Pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
camille paglia— p. 66 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of Pornography -- and of "sexual perversion."
colin wilson— p. 86 (The Misfits (1988))
[S]ome Islamist men...claim to find the veil sexy; Shabbir Akhtar, a British writer, sees it creating "a truly erotic culture in which one dispenses with the need for the artificial excitement that Pornography provides.
— Daniel Pipes (August 8, 2001). Shakespeare with Shari'a. Daniel Pipes’s personal website.
— Shakespeare with Shari'a. WorldNetDaily.
There is no evidence that demonstrates a significant increase in the danger to children caused by Pornography. A person who is prone to act on his fantasies will likely do so irrespective of the availability of Pornography.
— Justice Duncan Shaw. Top B.C. court strikes down child-porn law, The National Post, January 16, 1999
Men may buy Pornography but women pay for it – in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual objects. *Rosalie Maggio The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991)
— Charles Manson during an interview with Penny Daniels (1989)
[I can't define what is Pornography.] "But I know it when I see it."
— Potter Stewart, opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
Erotica: The depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as "Pornography".
richard summerbell— Richard Summerbell, Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary, 1985
Although Wales himself had made his personal fortune as a futures trader in Chicago in the 1990s, he wasn't the one funding Nupedia. This was done through one of Wales's less altruistic ventures, a Web portal called Bomis.com that featured, among other items, soft-core Pornography.
— Jeff Howe (2008). Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business. Crown Business. pp. 58-60. ISBN 0307449327.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales underscores that Bomis, his dot-com search engine business, was not directly involved in Pornography, pointing out that its content was R-rated rather than X-rated, like Maxim magazine rather than Playboy .
— Jonathan Zittrain (2008). The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It. Yale University Press. p. 289. ISBN 0300145349.
Watching Pornography [..] is like going to a Wikipedia page. You search for a specific thing, a specific feeling, a specific result, and that’s exactly what you find.
— Meg Wolitzer, "The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral", New York Times, April 15, 2011.
