Quote by Bertrand Russell
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent fe

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

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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. – Camille Anna Paglia

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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isnt sex but death. – Susan Sontag

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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. – Andrea Dworkin

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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. – George Steiner

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