Abusive Quote by Mason Cooley

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

— Gloria Steinem

“The most pernicious message relayed by pornography is that women are natural sexual prey to men and love it; that sexuality and violence are…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Anonymous

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

— Gloria Leonard

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

“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

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

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case…

— Kenneth Tynan

“Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

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

— Andrea Dworkin

“In their book Warrior Lovers , an analysis of erotic fiction by women, the psychologist Catherine Salmon and the anthropologist Donald Symons wrote, "To…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Alice Munro