Desire Quote by Volkmar Sigusch

Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing…

— Volkmar Sigusch

“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that…

— William T. Vollmann

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard…

— Francis Levy

I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and…

— Karan Mahajan

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack…

— Michel Foucault

Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that…

— William T. Vollmann

And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by…

— Rajneesh

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or…

— Michael Haneke

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses…

— Charlton Heston

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs