Deals Quote by Anonymous

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

— Lenny Bruce

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

— Henry Miller

“Only in intimacy with obscenity can one know what is obscene.”

— Wayne C. Booth

The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the…

— Gloria Steinem

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…

— Herbert Marcuse

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

— Nagisa Oshima

Better take a good look at your own lives before you go preaching to me your definitions of obscenity.

— The Ramones

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of its own…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The concept of “obscenity” is tested when we dare to look at something that we desire to see but have forbidden ourselves to look…

— Nagisa Oshima

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…

— Herbert Marcuse

What is obscenity? And to whom?

— Allen Ginsberg

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

— Jane Alexander