Characteristics Quote by Jean Baudrillard

Images contaminate us like viruses.

— Paul Virilio

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”

— Shulamith Firestone

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond…

— Jean Baudrillard

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to…

— Terence McKenna

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its…

— Stanislav Grof

Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.

— Volkmar Sigusch

The closeups of pornography make human genitals look like undiscovered prehistoric animals.

— Mason Cooley

We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

— John Ashcroft

“Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement…

— Erving Goffman

The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real…

— Sallie Tisdale

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for…

— Pipilotti Rist