Ruth Westheimer Quotes

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.

To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Avoid pornography at all costs!

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.