Arena Quote by Martin Amis

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 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

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 may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

— William Rehnquist

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

— Camille Paglia

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

— Anonymous

“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

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 the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

— Andrea Dworkin

Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought,…

— Linda S. Reeves

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People…

— Erica Jong

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse…

— Sheila Jeffreys