Gail Dines quotes
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“If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.”
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“Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.”
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“Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.”
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“The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty. The only solution to this is a movement that is fierce in its critique of sexual exploitation and steadfast in its determination to fight for what is rightfully ours.”
-- Gail DinesSource : "Should We Worry Whether Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality?". Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, www.alternet.org. September 10, 2010.
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“The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed ***** online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.”
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“Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.”
-- Gail Dines
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
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“What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?”
Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
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“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”
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“I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.”
Source : "Our Heroine". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 21, 2007.
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