pornography:
ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek porne , prostitute , and graphein , to write; first recorded in English around 1864:1. Erotic writings, pictures, movies, etc., intended to arouse sexual-desire . Humorously defined by Frederic Mullally in The Penthouse Sexicon (1968): ' Elevating reading-matter .'
2. The depiction or production of such writings, pictures, movies, etc. Synonym: pudery . SEE ALSO: net-pornography .
QUOTES:
(1) Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ' Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality .'
(2) Andrea Dworkin. Pornography (1981) Preface: ' Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer .'
(3) Attributed to Henry Miller (1891-1980) by George Plimpton: ' Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk .'
(4) Angela Lambert (1990): ' Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand .'
(5) Woody Allen as Felding Mellish in Bananas (1971): ' I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille. I used to rub the dirty parts .'
(6) Walter Matthau as Justice Dan Snow in First Monday in October (1981): ' Just being offensive is not an offense. One man's pornography may be another man's poetry .' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan said in a 1971 case on free speech: ' One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric .'
(7) Walter Matthau as Justice Dan Snow on the subject of pornography in First Monday in October (1981): ' So it's crap! What if it is crap? That's not the point . Crap has the right to be crap .'
(8) Charles Rembar: ' Pornography is in the loin of the beholder .'
(9) Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ' Men may buy pornography but women pay for it - in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual-objects. Pornography associates women with pain, inferiority, and humiliation ; the assumption for the user is that this is real and normal. Good sex is also a victim; a graduate of The School of Pornography is a sex-illiterate. (...) Erotica differs from pornography in that it celebrates rather than degrades human-sexuality . It preserves the mutuality of sexual activity, is not exploitative, controlling, objectifying, addictive, a "using" activity, or affected by prurient-interests .'
See Also: 18 USC CHAPTER 110, accidental pornography, bi-curious, blue gown, chicken porn, child porn, child pornography, child pornography laws, cook book, cyberporn, dirt, eight-pager, erotica, erotologist, erotology, facetiae, fag hots, French prints, French stuff, fuck wise, hard-core, hardcore pornography, kiddie porn, kiddy porn, net pornography, pander, porn, porno, pornographer, pornographist, pornography, pornomania, pudery, purple, risqué, smut, soft-core, Take Back the Night, Tijuana Bible, wankmonger
Quotes Containing pornography:
Yale (Michael Murphy) in Manhattan (1979): ''Gossip is the new pornography .''
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Angela Lambert (1990): ''Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.''
Charles Rembar: ''Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.''
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Men may buy pornography but women pay for it - in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual-objects. Pornography associates women with pain, inferiority, and humiliation ; the assumption for the user is that this is real and normal. Good sex is also a victim; a graduate of The School of Pornography is a sex-illiterate. Erotica differs from pornography in that it celebrates rather than degrades human-sexuality . It preserves the mutuality of sexual activity, is not exploitative, controlling, objectifying, addictive, a "using" activity, or affected by prurient-interests. ''
Angela Lambert (1990): ''Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.''
Charles Rembar: ''Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.''
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Men may buy pornography but women pay for it - in terms of exploitation, rape, violence, and a society that sees them as disposable sexual-objects. Pornography associates women with pain, inferiority, and humiliation ; the assumption for the user is that this is real and normal. Good sex is also a victim; a graduate of The School of Pornography is a sex-illiterate. Erotica differs from pornography in that it celebrates rather than degrades human-sexuality . It preserves the mutuality of sexual activity, is not exploitative, controlling, objectifying, addictive, a "using" activity, or affected by prurient-interests. ''
Gloria Leonard: ''The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography (1981) Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Gloria Steinem. Erotica vs Pornography (From articles in Ms. in 1977 and 1978): ''Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.''
Andrea Dworkin. Pornography Preface: ''Erotica is simply high-class pornography ; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.''
Attributed to Henry Miller (1891-1980) by George Plimpton: ''Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.''
Attributed to Henry Miller (1891-1980) by George Plimpton: ''Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.''
Walter Matthau as Justice Dan Snow in First Monday in October (1981): ''Just being offensive is not an offense. One man''s pornography may be another man''s poetry.'' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan from a 1971 case trial on free speech: ''One man''s vulgarity is another man''s lyric.''
Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) in First Monday in October (1981): ''Just being offensive is not an offense. One man''s pornography may be another man''s poetry.'' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan said in a 1971 case on free speech: ''One man''s vulgarity is another man''s lyric.''
Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) on the subject of pornography in First Monday in October (1981): ''So it''s crap! What if it is crap? That''s not the point . Crap has the right to be crap .''
Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) in First Monday in October (1981): ''Just being offensive is not an offense. One man''s pornography may be another man''s poetry.'' Possibly a rewording of a famous line by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan said in a 1971 case on free speech: ''One man''s vulgarity is another man''s lyric.''
Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) on the subject of pornography in First Monday in October (1981): ''So it''s crap! What if it is crap? That''s not the point . Crap has the right to be crap .''
Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham (1988): ''I believe in the soul, the cock , the pussy , the small of a woman''s back , the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent over-rated crap . I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe they''re ought to be a Constitutional Amendment outlawing astro turf in the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot , soft core pornography , open your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet-kisses that last three days.''
Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham (1988): ''I believe in the soul, the cock , the pussy , the small of a woman''s back , the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent over-rated crap . I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe they''re ought to be a Constitutional Amendment outlawing astro turf in the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot , soft core pornography , open your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet-kisses that last three days.''
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