Pornography Quotes

That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. (Tom Clancy)
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. View quote
Norman Mailer
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. View quote
Henry Miller
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. View quote
Iris Murdoch
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery. View quote
Irene Dunne
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. View quote
Isabel Allende
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)
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. View quote
J. G. Ballard
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. View quote
Susan Sontag
I want to talk about the internet, the impact it's 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. View quote
David Cameron
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. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been...destroyed by sudden environmental change. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
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. View quote
Larry Flynt
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. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
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. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
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)
[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. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. View quote
Camille Paglia
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. View quote
Camille Paglia