(136 quotes found)
“Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.”
Camille Paglia
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
D.H. Lawrence
“How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me”
Malcolm Muggeridge
“Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.”
Nancy Reagan
“Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.”
Isabel Allende
“Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.”
Gloria Steinem
“What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.”
Susan Sontag
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
Iris Murdoch
“At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance”
Jean Baudrillard
“Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers”
Rita Mae Brown