"Bondage has its own beauty - porn too, but often the beauty of bondage is
misunderstood. One simple reason for the difference is the focus of the
photographer. A good photographer will focus on the rope and the model's
face, a bad photographer will focus on the genitals, which is not the
point. Most people think female bondage is a realisation of a sexist rape
and violence obsession. Violence and rape - if we consider the police,
military, schools and other forms of establishment power - are 'normal'
human activities. Bondage is not a 'normal' human activity. It must be
'abnormal'. Bondage is parody and an anti-form of authority. People don't
understand this point."
- Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow
"Pornography is under attack at present, thanks in part to the criminal
excesses of kiddy porn and snuff movies, and to our newly puritan
climate -- the fin de siècle decadence that dominated the 1890s, and
which we can expect to enliven the 1990s, may well take the form of an
aggressive and over-the-top puritanism. A pity, I feel, since the sexual
imagination is unlimited in scope and metaphoric power, and can never be
successfully repressed. In many ways pornography is the most literary
form of fiction -- a verbal text with the smallest attachment to
external reality, and with only its own resources to create a complex
and exhilarating narrative. I commend Susan Sontag's brave 1967 essay
('The Pornographic Imagination'), though I would go much further in my
claims. Pornography is a powerful catalyst for social change, and its
periods of greatest availability have frequently coincided with times of
greatest economic and scientific advance."
"In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing
with how we use and exploit each other in the most urgent and ruthless
way."
- J.G. Ballard
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