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If sex is supposed to be satisfying and anxiety-free once we are safely ensconced in marriage, how come that's when many of us stop wanting it?
DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH, Passionate Marriage
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
DAN SIMMONS, The Rise of Endymion
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
VAL (WOODY ALLEN), Hollywood Ending
It's such a massive double edged sword. It makes no sense to me, and that's why I'm so outspoken about my sexuality. I think that women are entitled to sexual pleasure. I don't understand what is wrong with it. It's something that's good, and it makes you feel positive and happy and relieved. It's so funny because I watch these entertainment shows and they're talking about how Lindsay Lohan dates another man and she's a whore or whatever… and a million other women. They lay into these girls because they're actually having a good time and being open about it. Then they do a report on George Clooney, who's a 'playboy' and looked up to by everybody and how sexy he is, and how he can date all these women and he'll never get married. It makes me want to vomit.
JENNA JAMESON, pr.com interview, May 17, 2007
God has given you these desires ... He gives us carnal love for a purpose, for mutual delight, to produce children, and the sanctification of the soul. Cast yourself headlong on God's love, begging His grace to help you in the perfection of the nature He gave you. To love another so deeply that we seek union with the beloved, by that to bring an immortal soul into this world and care for and shape it ... that is to imitate God Himself in His splendor!
S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands
We made love. How pedestrian the words look--trite, worn, practically featureless with use--but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? that creation? that magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow ... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky ... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light ... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
Either sex alone is half itself.
ALFRED TENNYSON, The Princess
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.
DAVID SEDARIS, Bohemian.com interview, June 2009
Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "Could I have been any more inept?" Salon.com, Oct. 26, 1999
To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
DAN SIMMONS, The Rise of Endymion
I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on this planet to please men, that they have to fake, and they never worry about their own pleasure.
JENNA JAMESON, pr.com interview, May 17, 2007
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, journal, Apr. 4, 1831
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this ... these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one's beloved.
DAN SIMMONS, The Rise of Endymion
I'm not saying sex is our divinity. Please. Only that sex is the one secret we have that approximates an exalted state and that we share, two people share wordlessly more or less and equally more or less, and this makes it powerful and mysterious and worth sheltering.... Sex is what you can get. For some people, most people, it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or smart or stealing. This is what life can give you that's equal to others or better, even, that you don't have to go to college six years to get. And it's not religion and it's not science but you can explore it and learn things about yourself.
Sex is interesting but not totally important. I mean, it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.
JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit Redux
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI, The Windup Girl
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
NEIL GAIMAN, American Gods
Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
ANAIS NIN, attributed, French Writers of the Past
Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.
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