Quotes About Pornography

#1. I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazines, their hair feathered in a style I struggled to believe was ever in fashion.

Valentine Glass

#2. It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

Ruth Westheimer

#3. It's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.

Gloria Steinem

#4. I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of 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

#5. Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. Why do I read? To know that I am alive. To know that hope and humanity exist in the world. To remember that some people spend years of their life, not watching reality TV or pornography, but trying to create something meaningful and lasting and beautiful. I read to know what is possible.

Gea Haff

#7. I was harder to pin down, but I knew him when I saw him. Like the Supreme Court and pornography, I was aware.

Alice Clayton

#8. Pornography, to me, represents freedom.

Jenna Jameson

#9. Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

Andrea Dworkin

#10. There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

John Allen Paulos

#11. I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

Erica Jong

#12. It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!

Glen Duncan

#13. Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

Luke Salisbury

#14. What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

David LaChapelle

#15. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#16. Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Camille Paglia

#17. There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.

Pope John Paul II

#18. Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.

Jean Baudrillard

#19. A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#20. 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

#21. My experience of life is that it is not divided up 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

#22. I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.

Alison Assiter

#23. Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

Charles Colson

#24. High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Doug Stanhope

#25. I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

Dennis Cooper

#26. I have a huge problem with pornography.

Sue Johanson

#27. How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

Malcolm Muggeridge

#28. Pornography robs sex of its mystery. That's why men like it.

Marty Rubin

#29. I like books. I thought you liked books."
"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit and hidden imagery.

Hannah Moskowitz

#30. Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

Mason Cooley

#31. If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

Germaine Greer

#32. A novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn't such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography, it sounds banal, and in a few languages it was changed to Seduction.

Witold Gombrowicz

#33. Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

Jarvis Cocker

#34. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

Gloria Leonard

#35. I had a dream about you last night. We watched pornography together, but purely for the storyline.

Michael Summers

#36. 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.

Catharine MacKinnon

#37. I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

Doug Stanhope

#38. The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

Mason Cooley

#39. I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

Randy Pausch

#40. The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

Pola Negri

#41. I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.

Vince Gilligan

#42. Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

Doug Stanhope

#43. The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Alice Munro

#44. Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

J.G. Ballard

#45. I don't mean like balls-in-your-face or gifts of pornography and butt plugs romantic, just cute, over-the-pants, PG-13 movie stuff.

Frances Winkler

#46. Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.

Russ Feingold

#47. I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it's done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

Chuck Klosterman

#48. By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.

Blaze Starr

#49. The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Phyllis Schlafly

#50. I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

John Waters

#51. Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#52. Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

Leonard Rossiter

#53. Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

Jim Goad

#54. I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong - racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.

Billy Graham

#55. If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

James A. Michener

#56. In literature, sex is part of the story; in pornography, it's the whole story.

Marty Rubin

#57. From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

Storm Jameson

#58. Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Camille Paglia

#59. What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

D.H. Lawrence

#60. 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

#61. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.

Thomas Pynchon

#62. 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

#63. So Newton, like all good seventeenth-century intellectuals, wrote in Latin because that was the international language of science, philosophy and, I found out later, upmarket pornography.

Ben Aaronovitch

#64. Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

Jack McDevitt

#65. There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced by pornography and what they see on the screen. It's something to be talked about

Carey Mulligan

#66. War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.

John Rae

#67. Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Richard Fleischer

#68. The current demand for marijuana and pornography is deeply revealing. Here are two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore, and buy in astonishing amounts.

Eric Schlosser

#69. Time alone is pornography for people with families.

Victor LaValle

#70. Pornography is the consumption of sexual poison that becomes part of the fabric of the mind.

William M. Struthers

#71. I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.

Lady Gaga

#72. One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Clive Barker

#73. Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable

Michael Haneke

#74. You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

David Lee Roth

#75. Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Bob Dylan

#76. It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Alastair Reynolds

#77. For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined.

Hilary Mantel

#78. The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.

Al Goldstein

#79. I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

Neil Gaiman

#80. That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

Manu Joseph

#81. Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller

#82. Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

J.G. Ballard

#83. Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Susan Sontag

#84. Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are "sex-negative" without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.

Andrea Dworkin

#85. The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.

Seymour Papert

#86. Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Fran Lebowitz

#87. 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

#88. March against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to

Caitlin Moran

#89. The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

Gloria Steinem

#90. The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

Alvin Toffler

#91. Bundy was correct in saying that most serial murderers are addicted to hardcore pornography. FBI records validate that point. Not every person exposed to obscenity will become a killer, of course, but too many will!

James C. Dobson

#92. In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

Eric Schmidt

#93. Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

Mason Cooley

#94. While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

Ernest Istook

#95. Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

Marshall McLuhan

#96. Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

Pipilotti Rist

#97. Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Gail Dines

#98. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Andrea Dworkin

#99. At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

Jean Baudrillard

#100. I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

Lady Gaga