Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
— Jonathan Haidt
Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonald's everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.
— Virginie Despentes
You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
— Ron Jeremy
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
— W. H. Auden
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
— J. G. Ballard
If looking at porn makes you kill people, then Joe Matt should be the biggest serial killer ever. Bundy may have believed that porn made him a murderer, but the experience of millions of peaceful non-murdering porn-consumers around the world proves him wrong.
— Chester Brown
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful...It's made for the losers.
— Rita Mae Brown
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
— Robertson Davies
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, The Story of Ed (Mother Jones magazine, October 1986)
A number of years ago a national conference for church youth directors was held at a major hotel in a city in the mid-west. Youth pastors by the hundreds flooded into that hotel and took nearly every room. At the conclusion of the conference, the hotel manager told the conference administrator that the number of guests who tuned into the adult movie channel broke the previous record, far and away outdoing any other convention in the history of the hotel.
— Steve Farrar
On the screen an image of a beautiful nude blonde appeared. Gary pointed and clicked, and a nude tan man, photographed mainly from the rear but also in close-up from his knees to his navel, could be seen giving his fully tumid attention to the beautiful nude blonde. There was something of the assembly line in these images. The beautiful nude blonde was like fresh raw material that the nude tan man was extremely keen to process with his tool. First the material's colorful fabric casing was removed, then the material was placed on its knees and the semiskilled worker fitted his tool into its mouth, then the material was placed on its back while the worker orally calibrated it, then the worker clamped the material into a series of horizontal and vertical positions, crimping and bending the material as necessary, and very vigorously processed it with his tool...
My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
— Erica Jong
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
— Angela Lambert
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
— D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Facing It
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
— Gloria Leonard
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being — while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up. Normally we don't experience, at least don't want to experience, our sexual fulfillment as distinct from or opposed to our personal fulfillment. But perhaps in part they are distinct, whether we like it or not.
— Susan Sontag, The Pornographic Imagination
Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
My mother and father were around. There were no tragedies to send me into this arena. My parents found out when I decided that I better call them about my boy-girl layout in Penthouse. We don't talk about my adult work.
— Randy Spears
70 minutes of porn is as useful as being locked in a room with 100lbs of ice cream and a refrigerator - there’s no point, its just too much
— Philip Defranco
You're never disappointed in an X-rated movie. You never say "Gee, I never thought it would end that way."
