Pornographic Quotes

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

— Ellen Willis

“Levi's eyebrows were pornographic”

— Rainbow Rowell

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.

— Nelson Rodrigues

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

— Maya Angelou

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

— Norman Rockwell

Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.

— Volkmar Sigusch

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

— Barbara Degenevieve

Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.

— Lenny Bruce

“In real man, the “god-given” genital embrace has turned into the pornographic 4-lettering male-female intercourse.”

— Wilhelm Reich

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

— David LaChapelle

That's the ultimate pornography There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

— Tom Clancy

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.”

— Rebecca Harlem

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing…

— Tim Robbins

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot…

— Abhijit Naskar

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual…

— John Allen Paulos

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life…

— Susan Sontag

“Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.”

— Martha Cornog

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate…

— Susan Griffin

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings…

— George Bernard Shaw

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's…

— Marlene Dumas

“One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on…

— Sarah J. Maas

Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful,…

— Michael Kimmel

“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern…

— Hanif Kureishi

When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short…

— Sonia Braga

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of…

— Anthony Burgess

Photographs have always been the tar baby of censors and obscenity laws. Literature can certainly (if it's any good) conjure up the…

— Susie Bright

“ It’s a long shot, but this baby is pretty cool.” He pushed the button that brought up the menu. “I need…

— Sophie Oak

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're…

— Edward Albee

“Sex may be completely out in the open now, but it's still defined and controlled by a powerful subset of elite men.…

— Carina Chocano

Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these…

— Dave Barry

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

— Fredric Jameson

Before the days of the internet, people got their sick, pornographic, sado-masochistic entertainment from public access.

— Ramandeep Singh

“TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.”

— Bryant McGill

In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what…

— Ellen Willis

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a…

— Rainbow Rowell

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear…

— Philip Slater

No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking…

— David Platt