Cases Quote by Potter Stewart

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

— William Rehnquist

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

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

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

— Bill Hicks

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 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 about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition…

— Annette Messager

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

— Seth Lloyd

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

— Anonymous

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

— Susan Sontag