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Quotes About Sexuality

Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.
~ Hanne Blank
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
~ Harold Brodkey
Next to Krafft-Ebing, the psychiatrist who made the most detailed study of sadistic behavior was one of Freud's former colleagues, Dr. Wilhelm Stekel. Stekel's two-volume, 1929 work, Sadism and Masochism, contains dozens of extraordinary case histories: men and women in thrall to the most extreme, and often appalling, sexual aberrations.
~ Harold Schechter
To obey this rule, we must become sleepwalkers. We must not see clearly, think precisely, or remember freely. The amount of creative, intellectual, and sexual energy that is trapped by this need to repress anger and remain unaware of its sources is simply incalculable.
~ Harriet Lerner
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
~ Havelock Ellis
the female is most easily won by the male who most strongly excites her sexual instincts.
~ Havelock Ellis
Steinach found that, when sexually mature white rats were castrated, though at first they remained as potent as ever, their potency gradually declined; sexual excitement, however, and sexual inclination always persisted.
~ Havelock Ellis
Luther, again, always compared the sexual to the excretory impulse, and said that marriage was just as necessary as the emission of urine.
~ Havelock Ellis
That sexual feelings exist [it would be better to say 'may exist'] from earliest infancy is well known, and therefore this function does not depend upon puberty, though intensified by it.
~ Havelock Ellis
I would have liked to have given a frank and balanced account of my own sexuality ... because it is not just a personal matter but a political one too." Beauvoir
~ Hazel Rowley
I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.
~ Heather Kozar
lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.
~ Laurie Frankel
So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.
~ Laurie Notaro
God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.
~ Laurie Viera Rigler
She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.
~ Lawrence Block
The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism , as saving them trouble & expense. — Aleister Crowley . 1929-03-09 diary entry.
~ Lawrence Sutin
I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?
~ lawton j f
Men are afraid of virgins, but they have a cure for their own fear and the virgin's virginity.
~ le guin ursula k iv
WILLIAM BURROUGHS: I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.
~ Legs McNeil
Instead what we have is an Eros imprisoned by the narrow definition of romance and sexuality centered on the genitals.
~ Leny Mendoza Strobel
In real life, sexually-speaking, women are slow cookers and men are microwaves. But in pornography, all a man does is touch a woman and she's howling in delight. Today, pornography is so widely used by young men, they learn these falsehoods. There's good evidence that the more porn men watch, the less satisfied they are with their partner's looks and sexual performance.
~ James R. Stoner Jr.
I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's skin? Personally, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I seem to be one hundred percent heterosexual.
~ Jane Green
All intelligent women are latent homosexuals
~ Jane Rule
Of course it's your fault, Grandma said. You must be doing something wrong, if you know what I mean. Maybe you need to buy a book that tells you how to do it. I hear there are books out there with pictures and everything. I saw one in the store the other day. It was called A Sex Guide for Dummies.
~ Janet Evanovich