Quotes About Sexuality

Thus we may perhaps be forced to become reconciled to the idea that it is quite impossible to adjust the claims of the sexual instinct to the demands of civilization; that in consequence of its cultural development renunciation and suffering, as well as the danger of extinction in the remotest future, cannot be avoided by the human race.

Em matéria de sexualidade, somos todos, no momento, doentes ou sãos, não mais do que hipócritas.

La neurosis obsesiva deja ver, mucho más claramente que la histeria, cómo los factores que integran las psiconeurosis no deben buscarse en la vida sexual actual, sino en la infantil.

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

It is a characteristic common to all perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside.

The chief task during the latency period seems to be the fending-off of the temptation to masturbate. This struggle produces a series of symptoms which appear in a typical fashion in the most different individuals and which in general have the character of a ceremonial. It is a great pity that no one has as yet collected them and systematically analysed them.

David Lurie is so appalled by his degraded state—no longer sexually attractive but still squirming with lust—that he finds himself musing about actual castration, the possibility that one might get a doctor to do it, or even, with the help of a textbook, do it oneself. For would that really be any more disgusting than the antics of a dirty old man? Instead, he forces himself on one of his students, a cannonball dive into disgrace that will be his undoing.

Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called the sex, by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.

One afternoon Clairaut came over to me with a book in his hand: "Mademoiselle de Beauvoir," he began, in an inquisitorial tone, "what do you make of Brochard who is of the opinion that Aristotle's God would be able to experience sexual pleasure?" Herbaud cast him a disdainful look: "I should hope so, for his sake," he haughtily replied.

As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light—it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

Saint Thomas declared that woman was an "inessential" being, which, from a masculine point of view, is a way of positing the accidental character of sexuality.

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Na boca do homem o epíteto «fêmea» soa como um insulto; no entanto, ele não se envergonha da sua animalidade, sente-se, ao contrário, orgulhoso se dizem dele: «É um macho!» O termo «fêmea» é pejorativo, não porque enraíza a mulher na Natureza, mas porque a confina ao seu sexo.

En todo acto sexual esta implicado lo Otro, y su rostro más habitual es el de la mujer.

He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.

Svakoj ženi bez razlike nije dato da bude posrednik izme?u muškarca i sveta. Muškarac se ne zadovoljava samo time da u partnerki prona?e seksualne organe koje dopunjavaju njegove. Potrebno je da ona oli?ava ?udesni procvat života i da u isto vreme prikriva njegove mutne tajne. Od nje ?e, pre svega, tražiti mladost i zdravlje, jer grle?i nešto živo muškarac ne može da se o?ara ako ne zaboravi da je ?itav život ispunjen smr?u.

Certains psychanalystes ont voulu donner des bases scientifiques à ces imaginations: tout le plaisir que la femme tire du coït viendrait de ce qu'elle châtre symboliquement le mâle et s'approprie son sexe. Mais il semble que ces théories elles-mêmes demandent à être psychanalysées et que les médecins qui les inventèrent y aient projeté des terreurs ancestrales.

The phenomena of asexual propagation and of parthenogenesis appear to be neither more nor less fundamental than those of sexual reproduction. I have said that the latter has no claim a priori to be considered basic; but neither does any fact indicate that it is reducible to any more fundamental mechanism.

We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning of the word female will stand revealed.

She [the female] appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex - absolute sex, no less.

In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred back to the relation of the gametes. It is our duty, then, to study the female organism as a whole.

En la Naturaleza, nada está nunca completamente claro: los tipos, macho y hembra, no siempre se distinguen con nitidez.

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.