“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.” ThinkingDoeStillsIdeasReasonKidsAbleJobsFilmIndividualSexAliveGenerationsAirInformationStandingCurrentsExtremesDefenseIgnorantContemporaryQuestioningGood JobPistolsBombardedSex PistolsQuestioning Everything Author:Julien Temple
“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.” PeopleWantDesireChoicesCultureSexInfluenceMediaInformationSafeComputerFlowInvestmentConsumersCorporateRangeAcquisitionNuanceConvergence Book:Underworld: Picador Classic Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating?” WantIdeasHardFormIndividualSexInformationMasturbationIdealistic Author:Betty Dodson
“sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.” PeopleKnowsWellsSexCommunityLosesMistakeInformationCoupleGayMarriedConnectionsPainfulSexualityPrimariesOur SocietyGoodsUnitsWorldlyGay People Author:Rita Mae Brown
“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.” LongStillsSchoolGirlGivenSexInformationGrewGrew UpLong TimeConservativeExperimentsSixty Author:Elton John
“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveTwoBookMomentsYoungSexMoralBoysWrittenSubjectsInformationYouthCollegeMoralityBirdStonesBlameCuriosityProfitShelvesLecturesProstitution Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.” StillsSexInformationOpposites Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.” WayWritingEnoughSexDifficultToo MuchWrittenInformationReaderSexySexualityAdmireToo Much Information Author:Toni Morrison
“The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.” ChildrenFactsBodySexGrowsPleasureGrowing UpInformationFemaleOrgansSmall Child Author:Betty Dodson
“But obviously, things have changed in many ways since the '50s, when the show is started, in terms of sexuality, and how much access we have to images of it and information about it. But, the same problems always apply. It doesn't matter whether we know a lot more about sex now or if there's a lot more access to it. The same problems of intimacy, of dealing with other people, of connecting and being vulnerable with other people, which is what the show is ultimately about, still applies now, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayStillsMatterShowsProblemSexTermInformationChangedSexualityAccessVulnerableIntimacyConnectingThings Have Changed Author:Michael Sheen