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“pornography, to me, represents freedom.”

Author:Jenna Jameson

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

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.”

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Author:Marielle Heller

“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.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.”

“More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“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.”

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Author:Blaze Starr

“By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.”

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Author:John Mayer

“When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.”

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Book:Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is) - A Study Guide for Women: Sexuality Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

Source: Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is) - A Study Guide for Women: Sexuality Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

“Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.”

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Author:Takashi Miike

“For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.”

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Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.”

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Author:Judith Krug

“What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.”

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Author:Esther Dyson

“If you are ensnarled in pornography, make a total commitment to overcome it now. Find a quiet place; pray urgently for help and support. Be patient and obedient. Don't give up.”

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Author:Richard G. Scott

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

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“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!”

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Author:David LaChapelle

“Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

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

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Ыex is so huge and so amorphous. It's everything. It's not just pornography. It's not just cheating on a spouse. It can take so many forms.”

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Author:Stuart Blumberg

“I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.”

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Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell

Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell

“Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good. I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.”

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Author:Ruth Westheimer

“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?”

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Author:Wayne LaPierre

“Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.”

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Author:Paul Harvey

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

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Author:James A. Michener

“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.”

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Book:Against Empire

Source: Against Empire

“I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.”

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Author:Grimes

“I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.”

I Can Internet Pornography

Author:Vince Gilligan

“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.”

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Author:Steve Grand

“We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.”

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

Ifs Knows I Can Pornography

Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.”

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Author:Bill Gates

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

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Author:Jim Goad

“It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.”

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Author:Potter Stewart

“Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.”

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Author:Angela Carter

“Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.”

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Author:Carl Andre

“I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.”

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Author:David Cross

“I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.”

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Book:Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002

Source: Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002

“I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks. Almost every child, by the age of 13, has seen pornography. That's clearly different. It used to be really hard or really humiliating, as a 13-year-old, to access pornography. If you wanted to take a look at a Playboy, it was really challenging. Today, it's a joke.”

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Author:David Schwimmer