Pornography Quotes - Page 5

• I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.

  David Cameron

  Children, Impact, Childhood

  "The internet and pornography: Prime Minister calls for action". www.gov.uk. July 22, 2013.

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• Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Views, Erode, Spirit

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• Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two, Would Be, Different

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.243, Cambridge University Press

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• Avoid pornography at all costs!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cost

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• 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.

  David Schwimmer

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

  Camille Paglia

  Violence, Causes, Study

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• there is no pornography without a secrecy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Secrecy

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• Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Uplifting, Media, Television

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• ... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

  Susan Sontag

  Goal, Consciousness, Depends

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• Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

  J. G. Ballard

  Space, Events, Obsession

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• That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

  Irene Dunne

  Stars, Taken, Today

  "A Visit With Irene Dunne". American Classic Screen, September 1977.

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• Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

  Gloria Steinem

  Gay, Males, Female

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• Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Cynical, Substitutes

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.278, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is a window into each sex's unalloyed desires. Pornography for men is visual, anatomical, impulsive, floridly promiscuous and devoid of context and character. Erotica for women is far more likely to be verbal, psychological, reflective, serially monogamous and rich in context and character. Men fantasise about copulating with bodies; women fantasise about making love to people.

  Steven Pinker

  Sex, Character, Men

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• 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.

  George Pelecanos

  Mean, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

  Michael Haneke

  War, Trying, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• [I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Girl, Vocabulary, Class

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• 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.

  Carl Andre

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

  Hilary Mantel

  Creative, Kind, Historian

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• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

  "Our blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

  Carl Sagan

  Media, People, Stupidity

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• While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

  Ernest Istook

  Religious, Years, Speech

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