What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge… — Susan Sontag · Skopia

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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being.

The Pornographic Imagination · 1967

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Sontag, Susan. "The Pornographic Imagination." Partisan Review, Spring 1967.

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