"What turns me on is erotica; what turns……" — Ellen Willis
"What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic."
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19 Quotes by Ellen Willis
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My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually…
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For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects…
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give…
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did…
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Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire…
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face…
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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going…
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As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments…
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international…
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More Erotica Quotes
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Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of…
— Steven Pinker
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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
— Unknown Author
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all…
— Lara St. John
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Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.
— Richard Summerbell
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Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.
— Hanne Blank
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality,…
— Anais Nin
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Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a…
— Gloria Steinem
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
— Gloria Steinem
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Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
— J. G. Ballard
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Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
— Isabel Allende
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I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that…
— Erica Jong
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