Ends Quote by Fredric Jameson

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

— Susan Sontag

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

— Alice Munro

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

— Diane Ackerman

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

— Seth Lloyd

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

— Susan Sontag

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

— Leonard Rossiter

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it…

— Ravi Zacharias

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man…

— Nancy Reagan

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps…

— Potter Stewart

“Pornography causes release of adrenaline from an area in the brain called the locus coeruleus, and this makes the heart race in those who…

— Donald L Hilton Jr

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

— Susan Sontag