David Simon Quotes

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

His conversations were very vivid. He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes. He talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. On several occasions, Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess.

A liberal is one who says that it's all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a pornographic movie as long as she gets paid the minimum wage.

It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it should be outlawed, but I'm not in favor of the degradation of anybody.

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.

When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine.

I do not want to associate myself with sexual content on the webspace.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.