“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”
Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html (March 2008).
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
Pornography and Obscenity (1929)
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Context: It now seems that pornography is the leading sex educator in the Western world. And the idea of having your sexual nature determined by a medallion-in-the-chest-hair artist out in Los Angeles is really humiliating. I'm not talking about me, but I'm talking about my children's contemporaries, kids aged 18. They're getting their sex tips from some charlatan at Wicked Video.
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Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: But the hatred of women is a source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the fucking. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
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