Pornography Quotes
Vice is a monster of so frightful mein
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
– Alexander Pope
I spent a year of my life once writing an erotic novel, in common terms a pornographic one. One day, when it was virtually complete, I took it, and all its drafts into the garden and burnt the lot…. it was not prudishness that made me burn; but much more a feeling of blasphemy, an error of bad taste. It broke that secret, bared the hidden part. – John Fowles
When the movies started delivering messages they lost their charisma. Now the messages are being replaced by porno… – Anita Loos
The writer violates the contract when he trashes the reader by pornography… – Walker Percy
Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts. Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public’s ‘right to know.’ – Kenneth Starr
I think it quite likely that there is no such thing as good pornography. If it’s good, then it’s not pornography. – Vincent Canby
He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically, and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing. – Dorothy Parker
Pornography is of no use to me. I don’t even have a pornograph to play it on! – David McKay
I think there is certainly something wrong with people who send me their worn underwear or pornographic photographs, it really doesn’t do anything for me… – Gavin Rossdale
I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence, just like me. And, without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography. – Ted Bundy
I would like to see all people who read pornography or have anything to do with it put in a mental hospital for observation so we could find out what we have done to them. – Linda Lovelace
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them… – Ronald Reagan
For thirty years I served her Majesty at home and abroad without acknowledgment or reward. Then I publish a pornographic book, and at once earn £10,000 and fame. I begin at last to understand the public and what it wants. – Sir Richard Burton