JANE: So, Steve, Susan tells us you’ve been using pornography. (Everyone at the dinner party leans in.)
STEVE: (after a beat, scoffs) “Using pornography”? What a strange expression, Jane. Um, I enjoy erotica, if that’s what you mean. But then, doesn’t everyone? I certainly don’t “use pornography,” whatever that means. That makes me sound like — some kind of —
SALLY: Wanker?
Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Coupling, 01×04 “Inferno” (2000-06-02)
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It’s the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)
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Compare to Isabel Allende.
Erotica is using a feather; pornography is using the whole chicken.
Isabel Allende (b. 1942) Chilean-American writer
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Widely attributed, but without citation. See Pratchett.
Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not.
Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.Gershon Legman (1917-1999) American writer
Love & Death: A Study in Censorship (1949)
