Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
Susan SontagThere are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
Susan SontagTo photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.
Susan Sontag