“There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I'd rather not have it in my life. Sex, on the other hand, is something the vast majority of us enjoy, yet it rarely seems to be the subject of comics. Pornography is usually bland, repetitive and ugly, and, at most, 'does the job.' I always wanted to make a book that is pornographic, but is also, I hope, beautiful, and mysterious, and engages the mind.” MindDoeBookHandsSeemsWantedJobsBeautifulSexEnjoyViolenceSubjectsMajorityUglyMysteriousPornographyAmusedRepetitiveBland Author:Dave McKean
“I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?” IfsKnowsWritingMeanArtCareSexDrugFameAlcoholObsessionExpertsPornographyDrugs And AlcoholListen To Me Author:Lady Gaga
“Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.” WayFirstsSeemsUsedSexTechnologyRelatedLegendsHumankindPornographyNew Technology Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.” ChildrenMadeSexPoorConditionsInequalityDesperateHomelessPornographySexually Book:Only Words Source: Only Words
“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.” PeopleHappensUsedLiteratureSexMiddleCryDramaPagesMercyFilledPartnersUsed To BeEngagedNegotiationPornographyManualsBonfire Author:Laura Antoniou
“If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.” IfsKnowsWantRealSexArenaPornographyDissociationBanishment Author:Martin Amis
“In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.” LittlesFormUsedSexBedFemaleMurderMalesSexualityAggressionPornographyImbalanceLittle LoveMale FemaleFemale Power Author:Gloria Steinem
“The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.” HumansIdeasBodySexViolenceAcceptanceSexualityPornographyHuman BodyObscene Author:Gloria Steinem
“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.” TwoSexSinFictionToo MuchWorstTasteSentimentsPornographySentimentalityBad Taste Author:Flannery O'Connor
“the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.” SexSeriousPornographySquirrelsSingularityMating Author:Storm Jameson
“A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.” DoeSexNovelComedyTragedyInstinctNovelistsPornographyExploits Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a cheat. It is an attempt to provide sexual experience by secondhand means. Now sex is a thing which has to be experienced firsthand, if you are really going to understand it, and 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. It's not the same thing. Sex is primarily a question of relationships. Pornography is a do-it-yourself kit--a twenty-second best.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingTryingMeanBookSexTwentiesBarsCheatPornographySymphonyDo It YourselfSecond Best Author:Robertson Davies
“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.” PeopleIfsWantLooksRealAgeSexPovertyCarObjectsGunAskingBlueAdsPassiveConsentJeansPornographySuppressionOutragedObscenityBlue JeansAge Of Consent Author:Betty Friedan
“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.” IfsThinkingMightSexEnjoySituationCrimeConnectionsShameCome UpSpainPornographyLiberatingHardcoreHollandDenmarkArousalIncidence Author:Alan Moore
“Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.” WritingWellsProblemSexScenePornography Author:Fran Lebowitz