Cases Quote by Kenneth Tynan

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that…

— Jean Baudrillard

I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a…

— Robertson Davies

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

— Audre Lorde

“Pornography, in my opinion, has been much misunderstood, for it doesn't develop sex fiends and send them roaming alleyways - it is an anodyne…

— Truman Capote

Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing…

— Storm Jameson

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention…

— Herbert Read

“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 the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

— Anonymous

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 is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

— Bill Hicks

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual…

— Anonymous

If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from…

— Martin Amis