Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Pornography

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 (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canadian Novelist, Playwright, Essayist

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there’s nothing to be afraid of if you’ve stockpiled lots of dried fruit.
Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
Erica Jong (b.1942) American Novelist, Feminist

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
Anais Nin (1903–77) French-American Essayist

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist, Political Activist

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one’s existence as a full human being and one’s existence as a sexual being—while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don’t experience, at least don’t want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment. But perhaps in part they are distinct, whether we like it or not.
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American Writer, Philosopher

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful…It’s made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown (b.1944) American Writer, Feminist

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022) American Social Critic, Essayist

There’s only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, “Did you get an erection?” If the answer is “Yes” from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) English Novelist, Short Story Writer

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