Pornography Quotes
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Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change.
Marshall McLuhan— Letter to Clare Westcott, November 26 1975. Letters of Marshall McLuhan, p. 514
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 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.
Andrea Dworkin— p 209.
The difference between Pornography and erotica is lighting.
— Gloria Leonard
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
— 1929 'Pornography and Obscenity'.
Pornography was the great vice of the Seventies; plutographythe graphic depiction of the acts of the richis the great vice of the Eighties.
— 1988 In the SundayTimes Magazine,10 Jan.
Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
jarvis cocker— Interview with The Big Issue magazine (2006)
Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.
Andrea Dworkin— Testimony before the New York Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in 1986
Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.
— Andrea Dworkin, testimony before the New York Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in 1986
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance."
Andrea Dworkin— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1981)
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
— Angela Lambert (1990)
I'm pretty sure there's no Nobel prize for Pornography.
jim butcher— Character: Murphy Karrin Murphy
I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online Pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.
david cameron— Speech: The internet and pornography: Prime Minister calls for action (22 July 2013).
'As far as I know, Pornography is the only working medicine against seasickness.'
piet de jong— In response to a delicate question of a radio reporter, when asked what his thoughts on pornography were.P.J.S. (Piet) de Jong (Parlement & Politiek)
My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to Pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing.
larry flynt— The Henry Rollins Show, episode 313
A widespread taste for Pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
j. g. ballard— "News from the Sun" in Myths of the Near Future (1982)
Feminists are often asked whether Pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause Pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated Pornography; and Pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.
Andrea Dworkin— Pornography and Male Supremacy (1981), Letters from a War Zone, p 230.
Anti-feminism is also operating whenever any political group is ready to sacrifice one group of women, one faction, some women, some kinds of women, to any element of sex-class oppression: to Pornography, to rape, to battery, to economic exploitation, to reproductive exploitation, to prostitution. There are women all along the male-defined political spectrum, including both extreme ends of it, ready to sacrifice some women, usually not themselves, to the brothels or the farms. The sacrifice is profoundly anti-feminist; it is also profoundly immoral...
Andrea Dworkin— "Anti-feminism," Right Wing Women (1983), pp. 230-231.
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— p. 20 (Only Words (1993))
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas Pornography only adds to the murk.
henry miller— Interview, 1961
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political Pornography : lies , distortions, and half-truths half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
bill moyers— Concerning right-wing radio shortly before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, in NOW (17 December 2004)
Women have conceptualized less in history not because men have kept them from doing so but because women do not need to conceptualize in order to exist. […] Fetishism, for instance, a practice which like most of the sex perversions is confined to men, is clearly a conceptualizing or symbol-making activity. Man’s vastly greater commercial patronage of Pornography is analogous.
camille paglia— p. 20 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class Pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.
Andrea Dworkin— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1981), p 10
What do my science fiction stories have in common with Pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.
kurt vonnegut— Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1988), Pg. 133
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.
Sports is to war as Pornography is to sex.
— TED Talk, March 2008 (Quotes)
When Dudeness is forgotten, League bylaws and rules arise; Then political advocacy and Pornography are joined, And standards fall regrettably.
— Ch. 18 : Losing the Train of Thought
