“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
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
D.H. Lawrence
“At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance”
Jean Baudrillard
“What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”
Susan Sontag
“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
“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
“We've often been asked about sex-related industry -- pornography. There are not great stocks and great corporations to invest in [within] that industry. Maybe they don't want people looking at their books, maybe they're not solid financially,”
Dan Ahrens
