Computers Quote by Robert Hughes

One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the…

— Sherry Turkle

“... a novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn’t such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography,…

— Witold Gombrowicz

“The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.”

— Emily Giffin

“the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads…

— Margaret Atwood

“Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.”

— Neal Shusterman

“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I…

— Hanif Kureishi

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.”

— Girdhar Joshi

“gratuitous masturbation of the psyche.”

— Charles Bukowski

“She had no taste for the psychological, and nothing but scorn for the erotic. What she loved was a story which began with crime…

— Anonymous

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic…

— Roger Scruton

“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.”

— K. Ford K