Quotes About Sexuality

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.

There is never a penis that is as comfortable hard as it is soft in a pair of jeans.

I was seventeen and on the edge of an eighteen that seemed terrifying to a young man not sure of his sexuality. I knew I liked guys but was still under the delusion that an attraction to guys didn't make you gay just like drowning didn't mean you were breathing water. it just made you different, and as we all know, in high school there is nothing worse than being different.

Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.

There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.

the sexual activity of girls is "particularly subject to the watchful guardianship of their mothers," which may contribute an element of hostility toward their own sex. But all of these remarks simply confirm that the wave of repression in puberty is not biological but is rather a matter of social organization and conventions.

What is wrong with you? ARe you the only guy in the universe who doesn't like a blow job?

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

But wasn't that part of a whore's job? Being the sort of ear that lonely men could turn to? I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

There are some things you shouldn't have to discuss with your parents, lesbian conception is one of them.

He is disgusted not only by the whores of his city but also by the "wicked" sexuality of women in general.

I'M NEVER BORED ... I've got a clitoris ;-)

The dichotomy between sexuality and spirituality can only take root in countries founded on puritanical principles—countries that cannot laugh at the Devil because they would be mocking God, too.

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Did he contain himself as he felt inside Elva's vagina, smooth like a cul-de-sac, with no discernible cervix, no peekaboo womb or errant fallopian tubes? Did he express surprise or consternation upon uncovering what lay before him, an extra . . . what? No, not an unusually large, blushing labia, but a real-life miniature penis, one that could become aroused with certain thoughts or feelings, but which at that moment remained flaccid between his cold, clinical fingers.

Excision of my genitals didn't eliminate the human sex drive, and neither did the fear of hellfire. Repression only led to hypocrisy and lying, strategies that corrupt the human individual, and it failed to protect people from unwanted pregnancy and disease. The