“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

— Erica Jong

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Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942

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“I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like.”

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“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

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