“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
“Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.” Has BeensViolenceIdentityProductsEnvironmentalDestroyedPornographyEnvironmental Change Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.” CausesStudyViolenceEffectsDespitePornographyCause And Effect Author:Camille Paglia
“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
“It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.” ChildrenBookSeemsCultureGirlSawsViolencePerceptionReasonableExposedCensorshipRuinedPornographyPopular CultureGood GirlProtecting Children Author:Molly Ivins
“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.” FirstsSometimesHomeSeemsGovernmentWould BeFilmNiceViolenceWorstTelevisionHeavyRapAdvertisingProgrammingSwimmingMetalsAmendmentsPornographyFirst AmendmentDaydreamingOutlawHeavy MetalNannies Author:Molly Ivins
“Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.” TryingDoeBreakViolenceInspireBrokenLegsPornographyBreak A Leg Author:Mason Cooley
“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.” HardFilmViolenceCrazyWestViolentJapanPornographyControversialViolent Films Author:Takashi Miike
“It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.” ChildrenViolencePornography Author:Ruth Westheimer
“Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.” ShowsViolenceShow MePornographyViolence Against WomenStop Violence Against Women Author:Jim Goad
“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.” BelieveSeemsAmericaSexReligiousWonderViolenceCrimeExpressionProtectLimitsCourtPornographyDepiction Author:John Cornyn
“I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and to be good but pornography exerts a strong force on you, and one way to get further away from it would be to immerse yourself in a strong religious system.” ThinkingTryingStrongReligiousSituationViolenceBe GoodPornography Author:Karan Mahajan
“We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.” ThinkingMeanRememberCultureSpeakViolencePuzzlesPornographyRemember WhenSexuallyCrude Author:George Pelecanos