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Quotes About Sex

Does love even have a sex? I doubt it. If you are lucky enough to love, who cares what decorative flesh your lover sports? The divine delta, that juicy fig, the powerful phallus, that scepter of state- each is only an aspect of Aphrodite, after all. We are all hermaphrodites at heart- aren't we? The delta is as soft as Aphrodite, the phallus stiff as Ares' spear. And no one wears anything for long but a coat of dust. Only the songs of passion linger
~ Erica Jong
Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?
~ Amanda Carpenter
the book is not an exhaustive account of all aspects of female experience, but a concentrated examination of the concerns that privileged women were prepared to commit to paper (two topics that were virtually never canvassed, for instance, were spirituality and sex).
~ Amanda Vickery
Jean wondered how it might be to go out into the night and howl for sex. The clarity of purpose was appealing. No games.
~ Aminatta Forna
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.
~ Amy Hempel
You are making me something, cow-woman, or is that just make believe and pretend, like your sex life?' 'I'm making you a gag, Mickey, so I can knit in fucking peace.
~ Amy Lane
Sex is complicated—you taught me that. Love is simple. It's where the two meet that shit becomes a tangled mess.
~ Amy Lane
opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I'd be missing you. All alone in an empty room.
~ Amy Lane
I had conceived of lovemaking as a sort of asking and answering of questions, but with us it only led to further questions, until we seemed to be locked in a philosophical debate. Instead of the proverbial sadness after sex, I felt something like a semantic despair.
~ Anatole Broyard
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Scatology was strictly out, as nowhere in my psyche do I harbor the desire to shit on someone and even less do I have the inclination to be shat upon. And if I a a snob for not participating in films that involve sex with animals, then so be it; I am a snob.
~ Andrew Davidson
I'd met him sitting in his car outside a men's room at the boat ramp in a town in North Central Florida. But at least once, in London, love and sex had been combined in the same person—love, sex, art, and freedom.
~ Andrew Holleran
The summer two Cessnas collided in midair and the sky rained bodies into a grove of trees where everyone was in the middle of having afternoon sex.
~ Andrew Holleran
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
~ Ben Hecht
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
~ Rick Perry
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
~ Katha Pollitt
To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.
~ Jaime Hernandez
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
~ Camille Paglia
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
~ David Oyelowo
The sad thing in this day and age is kids have access to all sorts of horrible stuff on the Internet and they need to be taught the stuff about love and sex.
~ Kathy Burke
Love and sex and whatever, they are - different. I could say I'm in love with someone who is 90 years old and teaches acting and lives in Ohio.
~ James Haven
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
~ Mary Garden
Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order. I suppose I should have been reassured, then, that I was out here assisting with numero uno, but the whole situation just made me feel…well, sleazy. And coming from me, that was something.
~ Richelle Mead