Pornography Quotes

"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."
-Malcolm Muggeridge

"Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female."
-Hugh Hefner

"He is charged with possession of child pornography and nothing else."
-Dean Eichelberger

"There were countless images of child pornography, many of them graphic in nature. Many photos showed very young children engaged in sexual activity against their will with adults."
-Paul O'brien

"Senator Coats and Congress were very careful to craft a law that was constitutionally sound while at the same time effectively addressed American family concerns about the distribution of commercial pornography on the Internet."
-Matt Smith

"Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I can't."
-Joanna Russ

"There's always a role for pornography and for fantasies, if it's used to the benefit of the couple."
-Laura Berman

"The problem of victims being pulled into pornography has always been due to multidimensional and multi-interpretational problems."
-Vivi Widyawati

"The law criminalizes the victims, the ones exploited by pornography, and not the ones who exploit them."
-Vivi Widyawati

"At this point, we do not know if a crime has been committed. (Thursday), members of our Crimes Against Children unit served a warrant on a tip from the National Center for Exploited Children about child pornography."
-Sam Thompson

"The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography)."
-Vivi Widyawati

"The flashing lights, the change of colors. It has a hypnotic sense to it. The brain has no sense of time, so people can sit in front of a screen for hours watching pornography."
-David Bird

"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
-Nancy Reagan

"Many of the laws that pornography runs afoul of need to be tested, as they are often written broadly enough that they can affect other expressions that we do care about."
-Peter Scheer

"We are working with Rep. Pence on keeping the focus on preventing child pornography and eliminating any unintended consequences."
-Gayle Osterberg

"Thirty-five percent of the individuals that we arrest for trafficking in child pornography are in fact, child molesters."
-Raymond Smith

"We also think online consumers spend more time looking at pornography than buying it, ... The amount of money spent on books and DVDs is far, far bigger than anything else."
-Bhawani Singh

"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
-Jean Baudrillard

"We reject Playboy magazine because it is an icon of pornography. By insisting to publish, they are daring to face the opposition of society."
-Maruf Amin

"I always knew that the violence would be something that would be probably be brought up, but actually it's nothing to do with the movie. The first two minutes are all about establishing fear, that something horrible is going to happen. It [the violence] was done really quickly, and it wasn't like pornography where you can like dwell over it, you know. It had to be done, we had to kill some people."
-Paul Mcguigan

"The magazine is an icon of pornography. If they insist on publishing, we will hold rallies until they back down."
-Maruf Amin

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

"Those who only see this issue from a human rights, liberal and secular point of view are trying to disrupt efforts to curb pornography."
-Ma'ruf Amin

"I say we should take them at their word and believe that they are only looking at the information to prosecute [crimes like] child pornography."
-Steve Brady

"An examination of his computer did yield evidence to indicate that he had accessed explicit child pornography on that machine."
-Mike Watson

"The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good healthy interest in sex and appealing to a depraved interest, whatever that means."
-Antonin Scalia

"Since 1997, we have been trying to show the direct correlation between those who traffic in child pornography and those who actually molest kids."
-Raymond Smith

"The fact that it is available over the Internet should in no way legitimize it. These forms of violent and abusive pornography go far beyond what we allow to be shown in films or even sold in licensed sex shops in the UK, so they should not be available online either."
-Paul Goggins