“We should all be a little better about letting young people figure their shit out.”— Rebecca Jennings, vox.com
“I’m soon reminded that sex with another individual beats beating off pretty much any day if it’s any good — and that it’s often worth the time and effort. (It’s a shame I have to be reminded of this sometimes.)”— Scott Muska, psiloveyou.xyz
“For years, sex workers, sex educators, pole dancers, artists, tantric coaches, BDSM-ers and others have had their content shadowbanned or removed with little to no explanation, and Instagram has a long history of exacting this approach on sex workers and queer creators”— Pearse Anderson , melmagazine.com
“Porn industry expert Amberly Rothfield, who regularly publishes advice and guidance for sex workers, tells me her greatest fear is that these changes will have a trickle-down effect. If payment processors pull their services from any company that’s remotely horny on main (despite frequent, similar c…”— Jake Hall, melmagazine.com
“One ranking lists Pornhub as the 10th-most-visited website in the world. Yet there’s another side of the company: Its site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxi…”— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com
“By the late 1990s and early aughts, horror movies still had an aura of schlock about them — a cash-grab cynicism, an obsession with exploitative tropes and cheap thrills. But they were mainstream schlock, with no connection whatsoever to the adult industry.”— Mark Hay, melmagazine.com
“I hate mixing politics with sexual play, but there is a wealth of feminist porn (I agree we need a better name) directed and casted by women.”— Shan Boodram, playboy.com
“Lena isn’t particularly worried about this influx of new models. To her mind, other girls aren’t necessarily competition — someone who’s interested in her content isn’t automatically going to be interested in another performer like, say, Asa Akira or a celebrity like Cardi B or Bella Thorne.”— Lux Alptraum, vulture.com
“The closest cultural mention I could find involved the medieval belief that sinister women could suck penises deep into their depths, a theory that cast the vagina as some kind of very cool, very judicious underwater cave.”— Lillian Stone, melmagazine.com
“We shouldn’t be learning everything we know about sex from porn any more than we should be taking dating advice from romantic comedies.”— Emma Austin, medium.com
“Some women hate it so much that I would hear them vomiting in the bathroom between scenes. I would find others outside, smoking endless chains of Marlboro Lights… But the multi-billion dollar porn industry wants you to believe the fantasy that we porn actresses love sex. They want you to buy into th…”— Shelley Lubben, amazon.com
“Everyone’s a ticking time bomb, and a lot of it is linked to the drugs. A lot of this new pain comes from these new girls who have to do these abusive scenes, because that does break you down as a woman.”— Lisa Ann, fightthenewdrug.org
“Being good in bed, fundamentally, is about being able to read someone else, and men are learning false cues.”— Emma Lindsay, medium.com
“Yes, there are ways to stimulate and arouse yourself without porn.”— Nona Willis Aronowitz , teenvogue.com
“You look like a park ranger in a porno.”— Hye Yun Park, Alexandra Rushfield, Lindy West, Aidy Bryant, Fran, Lolly Adefope, imdb.com
“Based on porn, you might think there’s something wrong with you if you don’t have a big penis that can always get and stay hard and last as long as you want. But it’s important to remember that porn doesn't always reflect reality.”— Suzanne Weiss, teenvogue.com
“That generation just finds sex things so freakin’ funny. I reckon internet porn ruined that for us.”— Thomas Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“Why can't you just download porn like most normal teenagers?”— Kevin Williamson, Ellie, Christina Ricci, imdb.com
“Well, I like porn, and I think that people should do whatever they want. But the point being that this generation is so—porn is so accessible that sometimes guys don’t actually connect to the person that’s in front of them.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“The boy will be in love, but as usual, he will be thinking with his little head instead of his big head.”— Logan Pierce, whoislogan.com