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Quotes About Sexuality

Masturbation is common, sex is a normal part of adult life, and we can talk about it without fear. By
~ Alice Dreger
Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions.
~ Alice Echols
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
~ Alison Bechdel
Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
~ Alison Bechdel
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
~ Alison Bechdel
But how could he admire Joyce's lengthy, libidinal 'yes' so fervently and end up saying 'no' to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
~ Alison Bechdel
Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
~ Alison Bechdel
Today, any movie that didn't show Rick and Ilsa sweatily grappling with each other's naked bodies in Rick's apartment above the café would be considered old-fashioned. But graphic sex wipes out ambiguity, and the ambiguity in Casablanca, the uncertainty about events and motives, is one of the things that still entices us.
~ Aljean Harmetz
One other late addition is undocumented, but it is claimed that the group took the sexual theme one step further, overdubbed the pulsing sound of a vibrator after the line "get you ready for my polygon." (In the final mix this sound could easily be mistaken for the sound of a chainsaw or motorcycle.)
~ Allan Kozinn
In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.
~ Alleen Pace Nilsen
Descubrí que el sexo podía ser sano, limpio, libre, adulto, madduro, razonable, trivial, eso fue lo peor, pero también me acostumbré a esa pobreza.
~ Almudena Grandes
Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman women engaged in adulterous sex, and when they became pregnant, they destroyed the evidence of their sexual indiscretions, thus adding to Rome's widespread abortions.
~ Alvin J. Schmidt
I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.
~ Alyssa Milano
What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best.
~ Amelie Nothomb
What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth".
~ Amelie Nothomb
My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
~ Amanda Bearse
There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their family was ans these issues are not hidden, they were in the late 19 century and they're still important today.
~ Amybeth McNulty
I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.
~ Dolly Parton
I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.
~ Mira Sorvino
I also feel I have always been targeted just because I am a singer and I like to look sexy. I like to wear a certain clothing, and targeted for that a lot. You see 18-19 year olds walking around in shorter clothes, nobody says anything.
~ Neha Bhasin
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
~ Emmy Rossum
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.
~ Derren Brown
The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given by God.
~ Abhimanyu Singh
It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.
~ Marti Noxon