Daily Inspiration Quote by Andrea Dworkin

“High-class pornography” is a deliberately corrosive phrase: Dworkin takes a soft-focus word people reach for when they want to consume sex without admitting they’re consuming porn, then she yanks it back into the harsh light. The line works because it treats “erotica” not as a different category but as a marketing upgrade - the same product with a premium sheen. Her rhythmic pile-on (“better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged”) mimics ad copy, a sales pitch that keeps insisting on quality while never changing the core commodity. The final jab - “a better class of consumer” - isn’t about taste; it’s about class power laundering itself through aesthetics.

Dworkin’s intent is less to police desire than to expose how liberal, educated audiences carve out moral exemptions for themselves. If porn is what the crude masses buy, erotica becomes the boutique version that lets the purchaser feel sophisticated, even ethical. The subtext is that “better” here is a euphemism for “more culturally defensible,” not less exploitative; refinement doesn’t cancel the underlying dynamics she condemned in pornography: commodification, inequality, and the packaging of women’s bodies for consumption.

Context matters: Dworkin wrote from the frontline of late-20th-century feminist battles over pornography, arguing that sexual representation is not neutral entertainment but a political system with real-world consequences. This sentence is a scalpel aimed at hypocrisy. It punctures the idea that art direction, narrative framing, or a literary imprint can redeem an industry - or an appetite - from its power relations.