“An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be captured on digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual component.”

— Susan Sontag

Regarding the Torture of Others (2004)

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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

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