Obscenity Quotes

Since then I’ve come to understand that photography certainly and perhaps every form of art is sexual activity; the photographer wants to capture the reality whose image has enthralled him and to be captured by it. Moreover, there is no more lovely subject in the world than the human body, especially the body of a […]

Is it a book (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing – with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.

I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I’m for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what’s really involved: dirty […]

People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people, I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.

But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.

Bullshit! (reply to Playboy interviewer who commented “You have been accused of vulgarity”)