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Quotes on pornography and sex

By Cory Silverberg, About.com

Updated August 04, 2008

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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
~ JG Ballard

Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.
~Masami Akita, aka Merzbow

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
~Henry Miller

I was thinking how pornography could be a superstitious offering to the gods of a dying race.
~ John Currin

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
~D.H. Lawrence

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
~D.H. Lawrence

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
~Andrea Dworkin

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
~Gloria Leonard

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
~Erica Jong

If looking at porn makes you kill people, then Joe Matt should be the biggest serial killer ever. Bundy may have believed that porn made him a murderer, but the experience of millions of peaceful non-murdering porn-consumers around the world proves him wrong.
~Chester Brown

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
~Susan Sontag

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