SEX QUOTES III

quotations about sex

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

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What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

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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

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Sex is so taboo, but we know we're all f***ing like rabbits.

AMAKA OSAKWE

"West Africa's Most Daring Designer", New Yorker, September 25, 2017


I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.

KAREN MARIE MONING

Iced


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


Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

JOHN BARRYMORE

attributed, The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair Philosophers ... And Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart


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

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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

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Sex is natural, sex is good
Not everybody does it, but everybody should
Sex is natural, sex is fun
Sex is best when it's one on one

GEORGE MICHAEL

"I Want Your Sex"


Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do -- like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.

MARTIN AMIS

interview, Washington Post, November 7, 2003


"Sex" is a great, rich, complicated word. Metaphorically, it is a descriptive adjective that defines who we are; a noun that describes an endless array of people, places, and things; and a verb that conjures up activities that people all over the world find pleasurable. More than a word, it is a topic sentence for dissent and political posturing. It is a plot for complicated stories of interaction and intrigue, sometimes in our own families. It is a hypothesis for experimentation and curiosity. It is the grist of advertising copywriters, poets, and novelists. We desire sex, we deplore it, we regret it, or we do it, but whatever our stance, it remains on our minds.

SUSAN LIEBERMAN

Venus in Blue Jeans

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Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

MARTIN AMIS

The Rachel Papers

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The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

HOMER

The Iliad

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Sermons

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If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

J. D. ROBB

Indulgence in Death

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Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

WOODY ALLEN

Crimes and Misdemeanors


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.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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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

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We have inherited the term "sexual revolution" from those who first coined it in the 1960s, and in adopting their phrase we have perpetuated some of the confusions of that era. We continue to hear echoes of danger in the word "revolution." We continue to conflate very different impulses and outcomes. This received language to revolution has made it much more difficult for us to understand and discuss the roles and meanings of sex in contemporary America.

BETH BAILEY

Sex in the Heartland

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