Pornography Quotes
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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
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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 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 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 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 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— Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1981)
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)
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
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)
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.
...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.
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))
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")
[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
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
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
