Poetry Quote by Pierre Guyotat

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

— Gloria Steinem

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

Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like.

— Spider Robinson

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

— Gloria Leonard

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

— Andrea Dworkin

“Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically.”

— Naomi Wolf

“At the heart of pornography is a pursuit of a short-term pleasure at the expense of a long-term good.”

— Darrin Patrick

Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.

— Richard Summerbell

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

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

— Camille Paglia