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.

Susan Sontag

The Pornographic Imagination

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Topic

Pornography

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

The Pornographic Imagination Partisan Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Activist Philosopher Writer

From

United States

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

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