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Quotes About Sexuality

I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.
~ Charli XCX
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
~ Jason Bateman
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
~ Aleister Crowley
Since many men believe that adequate sexual functioning is being able to delay ejaculation, some develop strategies to prevent what they consider to be premature ejaculation-strategies that exaggerate emotional distancing, phallocentrism, the focus on orgasm, and objectification.
~ Michael S. Kimmel
During the early waves of the women's movement, lesbianism was seen as a political alternative, a decision not to give aid and comfort to the enemy (men). How could a woman be truly feminist, they asked, if she shared her life and bed with a man? (..) "For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture," wrote one woman, "is an act of resistance.
~ Michael S. Kimmel
Sex does not need to be primordial in order to be legitimate. Civilization doesn't just repress our original sexuality; it makes new kinds of sexuality. And new sexualities, including learned ones, might have as as much validity as ancient ones, if not more.
~ Michael Warner
He cupped his testicles in his hands, and, with his wrists, pressed his penis hard against his belly until the semen came.
~ Michel Faber
We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
~ Michel Foucault
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species
~ Michel Foucault
People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.
~ Michel Foucault
After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.
~ Michel Foucault
For was this transformation of sex into discourse not governed by the endeavor to expel from reality the forms of sexuality that were not amenable to the strict economy of reproduction: to say no to unproductive activities, to banish casual pleasures, to reduce or exclude practices whose object was not procreation?
~ Michel Foucault
The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexualities, a strengthening of their disparate forms, a multiple implantation of perversions. Our epoch has initiated sexual heterogeneities.
~ Michel Foucault
The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.
~ Michel Foucault
There has been so much action in the past," said D.H. Lawrence, "especially sexual action, a wearying repetition over and over, without a corresponding thought, a corresponding realization. Now our business is to realize sex. Today the full conscious realization of sex is even more important than the act itself.
~ Michel Foucault
Toda esa atención charlatana con la que hacemos ruido en torno de la sexualidad desde hace dos o tres siglos, ¿no está dirigida a una preocupación elemental: asegurar la población, reproducir la fuerza de trabajo, mantener la forma de las relaciones sociales, en síntesis: montar una sexualidad económicamente útil y políticamente conservadora?
~ Michel Foucault
Censura respecto al sexo? Más bien se ha construido un artefacto para producir discursos sobre el sexo, siempre más discursos, susceptibles de funcionar y de surtir efecto en su economía misma.
~ Michel Foucault
El uso de los placeres está consagrado a la forma en que la actividad sexual ha sido problematizada por los filósofos y los médicos, en la cultura griega clásica del siglo IV a.C.; La inquietud de sí está consagrado a esta problematización en los textos griegos y latinos de los dos primeros siglos de nuestra era; finalmente, Las confesiones de la carne* trata de la formación de la doctrina y de la pastoral de la carne.
~ Michel Foucault
I'm A Queer Poet Too! She stressed queer not because she walked around identifying as a queer poet but so that the youth understood she would fuck her.
~ Michelle Tea
This upscale Marin whorehouse allowed the men to come and pick from the lineup of women like we were donuts in a pastry case.
~ Michelle Tea
Asl?nda meta fetiÅŸizmi, cinsel fetiÅŸizmi bolca kullan?r: Bir meta reklâm?n?n, al?c?n?n cinsel bak?mdan daha güçlü, cinsel bak?mdan daha doygun, kar?? cinsin gözünde daha çekici olaca?? sezdirilmeden yap?labildiÄŸine pek rastlanmaz.
~ Mike Wayne
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
~ Milan Kundera
If it were possible to raise the penis by means of a simple command, then sexual excitement would have no place in the world.
~ Milan Kundera
Her erkeÄŸin iki çeÅŸit seks biyografisi vard?r: Genellikle yaln?z birincisinden, yani cinsel iliÅŸkiler ve rastlant?lardan oluÅŸan bir listeden sözedilir. Daha ilginç olan?, kuÅŸkusuz öteki biyografidir: elde etmek istediÄŸimiz ve elimizden kaç?rd???m?z kad?nlar?n toplam?, sonuçland?r?lamam?? çabalar?n ac?h öy-küsü.
~ Milan Kundera