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Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Marriage and Morals
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Mon coeur mis à nu
Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
GAO XINGJIAN, Weekend Quartet
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
KARL KRAUS, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths
- The way you make love
- is the way God will be with you.
RUMI, The Book of Love
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Mrs. Richard Stockton, Sep. 2, 1783
The storm caused by our god, sex, sends us all to our ruin by the shortest route.
When it comes to being a good lover, a guy has to ask a girl what she wants and be willing to give it to her.
JENNA JAMESON
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation ... The other eight are unimportant.
HENRY MILLER, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
It's sexier when a girl is flirty but she doesn't do anything.
PARIS HILTON, Guardian Unlimited, Jul. 8, 2006
- I felt an angel's possessing grip, the flames
- rising from your skin,
- the shadow of the divine.
EDWARD HIRSCH, O Magazine, Feb. 2007
Sex is the most wonderful thing on this earth, as long as God is in it. When the Devil gets in it, it's the most terrible thing on this earth.
BILLY GRAHAM, Just As I Am
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE, Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
A woman with a well-stocked toy drawer isn't dependent on anyone and is unlikely to hurl herself at a lowlife just for nooky.
ARIANNE COHEN, Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008
- With his venom
- irresistible
- and bittersweet
- that loosener
- of limbs, Love
- reptile-like
- strikes me down
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE, L'Histoire de Juliette
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN, Familiar Territory
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality -- because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
HUGH HEFNER, NPR interview, Sep. 6, 2003
The sexual life of adult women is a “dark continent” for psychology.
SIGMUND FREUD, The Question of Lay Analysis
People take sex far too seriously.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Newsweek, July 31, 2006
We settle for so-so sex because most of us don't know how sexual we could be; we know only how sexual we are. How sexual we are has been shaped by decades of indoctrination by ... family and friends, teachers, religious leaders, and romantic partners, not to mention a society that worships a bewildering fusion of childlike sexual innocence and cynical, nihilistic hedonism.... So what is normal? It all depends on what's normal for you.
ANITA H. CLAYTON, Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy
When she's having sex, no woman remains grandiose.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, The Piano Teacher
I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
ANGELINA JOLIE, interview, Nov. 22, 2004
Because they like their own church, and the relationships within it, or because they love Jesus, or because they have a nostalgic affection for it, many people will go on giving the church their loyalty and commitment, while simply disregarding parts of its teaching they don't agree with. Sexuality is one huge area of church doctrine in which this is clearly the case. The traditional position on sexual intercourse is that it is not permissible in any circumstance except that of heterosexual monogamous lifelong marriage. But most Christians are not virgins when they marry. Many Christians divorce. Some Christians are practising homosexuals. Some live together outside of marriage. And though there is still a consensus in secular as well as church circles that adultery is a bad thing, a betrayal of relationship, it is the deceit and faithlessness that is seen as the sin, not the actual sex. In the Catholic church, teaching on contraception is disregarded by the majority. In no other area of church life is the gap between theory and practice so wide.
KATHY GALLOWAY, introduction, Dreaming of Eden
Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
It's one thing to shoot a man, quite another to cast aspersions upon his lovemaking skills.
TERESA MEDEIROS, The Vampire Who Loved Me
Sex ... or lack thereof ... is at the center of everyone's identity, and once you've cracked someone's desires, you understand them in full.
ARIANNE COHEN, Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008
- Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
- Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
- All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
- All the governments, judges, gods.
WALT WHITMAN, A Woman Waits for Me
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