25 Quotes About Pornography

Love it or hate it, people have a lot to say about porn

Is pornography a good thing or a bad thing? Like most things, it depends on who you ask. For some, pornography is just a form of entertainment that allows people to explore their sexuality. For others, it’s a scourge on society that opens the door to abuse. These quotes explore the range of ideas people have about porn, both good and bad.

1. “One man’s pornography is another man’s theology.” -Clive Barker

2. “The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” -Gloria Leonard

3. “The only thing that separates us from the animals…is we have pornography.” -Chuck Palahniuk

4. “What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn’t sex but death.” -Susan Sontag

5. “There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.” -Pope John Paul II

6. “Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been…destroyed by sudden environmental change.” -Marshall McLuhan

7. “Rock and roll is the new pornography.” -Jimmy Swaggart

8. “It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you….To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neural of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.” -David Foster Wallace

9. “Any violation of a woman’s body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.” -Andrea Dworkin

10. “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.” -Tim Berners-Lee

11. “I don’t like to degrade women, but I like pornography.” -Lupe Fiasco

12. “In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other, in the most urgent and ruthless way.” -J.G. Ballard

13. “Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.” -Jonathan Haidt

14. “Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.” -Jarvis Cocker

15. “Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.” -Seth Lloyd

16. “Pornography does not promote sex, if one defines sex as a shared act between two partners. It promotes masturbation. It promotes the solitary auto-arousal that precludes intimacy and love. Pornography is about getting yourself off at someone else’s expense.” -Chris Hedges

17. “When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions.” -Alexandra Katehakis

18. “Women deformed by the pornographic sexual template perceive other women as masturbatory objects.” -Antonella Gambotto-Burke 19. “Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.” -Sheila Jeffreys

20. “By contrast, pornography is the opposite, in that it makes into a commodity that which is obscene, makes the unusual consumable, which is the truly scandalous aspect of porno….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. Propaganda is far more pornographic than a home video of two people fucking.” -Michael Haneke

21. “Remember this: Men and pornography are like plants and sunshine. To me, porn is photosynthesis.” -Sherman Alexie

22. “At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.” -Jean Baudrillard 23. “I have a huge problem with pornography.” -Sue Johanson

24. “Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonald’s every day will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex, rather than the real.” -Virginie Despentes

25. “I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.” -Erica Jong

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