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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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Physical beauty is such a strange thing. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#physical #strange #strange thing #such #thing

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #extent #fairly #sensual #species

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#consumption #dichotomy #intent #making #me

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #cases #child #children #continue

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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