Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
ALAN LIGHTMAN, Einstein's Dreams
If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
PAMELA ANDERSON, Playboy, Jul. 1992
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.
Seduction ... was both a science and art -- a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
You know that look that women have when they want to have sex? Me, either.
STEVE MARTIN, attributed, Hating Dating
Ultimately, love is much more important than sex and sex becomes greater when you're really in love.
CALVIN KLEIN, Playboy, May 1984
The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl — a girl that isn't a prostitute or anything, I mean — she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don't. I can't help it. You never know whether they really want you to stop, or whether they're just scared as hell, or whether they're just telling you to stop so that if you do go through with it, the blame'll be on you, not them. Anyway, I keep stopping.
J. D. SALINGER, The Catcher in the Rye
Sex is only a three-letter word so how can it be dirty?
ERMA BOMBECK, Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.
GILBERT ARENAS, Esquire, Apr. 2010
We demand that sex speak the truth ... and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves which we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT, The History of Sexuality
If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.
TED TURNER, Playboy, Aug. 1978
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, The Proud Highway
The worst sex I've ever had has always been great.
VINCE MCMAHON, Esquire, Jan. 2005
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