“Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.”
Bertrand Russell
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
D.H. Lawrence
“What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”
Susan Sontag
“At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance”
Jean Baudrillard
“The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good healthy interest in sex and appealing to a depraved interest, whatever that means,”
Antonin Scalia
“The pornography industry spends more than $57 billion worldwide and sex outlets, like adult bookstores, outnumbering McDonald's restaurants on a scale of two-to-one in our society.”
Michael Leahy
“The younger generation isn't phased by sex toys. They don't believe they equal pornography. Vending machines allow them to buy such products anonymously without going to a seedy sex shops to do so.”
Alan Lucas
