A taste for dirty stories may be said to be inherent in the human animal.

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having someone tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

Women reading Vogue magazine about the latest fashions to come off the Paris runway, is the same as men looking at naked women in Playboy. We're both looking at places we're never going to visit.

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.