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

— Bill Hicks

Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it…

— Steven Pinker

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

In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry.…

— Robert Lawlor

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

— Jose Saramago

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds…

— Norman Mailer

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few…

— Robertson Davies

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

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

— Leonard Rossiter

“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

“There's mainstream pornography--soft-core airbrushed fluff such as Penthouse and Playboy. The folks makin' this stuff do men and their range of desires a disservice;…

— Lisa Jervis

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