Pornography Quotes
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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
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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)
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.
Andrea Dworkin— p 69.
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
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 is literature designed to be read with one hand.
— Angela Lambert (1990)
Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.
— Robin Morgan "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape", 1974 in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977)
Pornography. That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.
— Leonard Rossiter, English comic actor. ‘...To Rossiter’, The Devil’s Bedside Book, Hamlyn paperbacks (1980) p. 46
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.
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
There's a subterranean impetus towards Pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
norman mailer— "Petty Notes on Some Sex in America" first published in Playboy magazine (1961 - 1962)
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of Pornography if you're lucky.
alan moore— "The Mustard magazine interview" (January 2005)
But fantasy kills imagination, Pornography is death to art.
iris murdoch— The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
...Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls; rape, battery, incest, and prostitution animate it; dehumanization and sadism characterize it; it is war on women, serial assaults on dignity, identity, and human worth; it is tyranny. Each woman who has survived knows from the experience of her own life that Pornography is captivity – the woman trapped in the picture used on the woman trapped wherever he's got her.
Andrea Dworkin— Pornography, Men Possessing Women, Introduction (1979, pg. xxvii).
[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— p 10.
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.
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)
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))
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between Pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
camille paglia— p. 65 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
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")
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— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1981)
What's the difference between art and Pornography... a government grant!
— Peter Griffin (cartoon character), Family Guy
The oppressive measures on Pornography by the Korean government are totally insane... It is actually seen that it oppresses masculinity and that it distorts the essentials. It is all done by the Ministry of Gender Equality and women’s organizations led by Korean feminists.
— Sung Jae-gi Quoted in: "(Voice) Should pornography be censored?" The Korea Herald, 2012.12.17
[P]rostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child Pornography, and even incest and pedophilia ... should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
— Richard Stallman, link, 28 June, 2003.
The internet is like a big circus tent full of scary, boring creatures and Pornography.
— Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, speaking at the University of Illinois
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.
