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Quotes About Promiscuity

The pseudo-scientific myth that all women are naturally predisposed toward sexual restraint and all men toward promiscuity isn't only inaccurate but dangerous, leading directly to the notion that women who differ from that norm are unacceptable, need to be corrected or deserve to be mistreated,' says Zhana Vrangalova, professor of human sexuality at New York University.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
When fathers contested custody, even of infants, "good enough" mothers would consistently lose children due to (false) allegations of mental illness or sexual promiscuity.
~ Phyllis Chesler
I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.
~ Rachael Taylor
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?' 'Yes, sir, it has.' 'Then why do you do it?' 'To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.
~ Joseph Heller
So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that keep us so healthy?
~ Wallace Stegner
Remember: Condoms promote licentiousness, so reconsider before using.
~ Douglas Coupland
And, as an adult, you have the freedom and the access to indulge in much greater forms of self-destruction than a two-year-old could ever have. You can drink and use drugs. You can smoke. You can be promiscuous. You can kill yourself if you want to, run into the streets at night, choose to eat everything in sight, or starve yourself. It's dangerous when the raw black-and-white emotions of a child are harbored in an adult's mind and body.
~ Rachel Reiland
until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
~ Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
her hot attire did not signify promiscuity—contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers—but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Driving on 1-65 near Nashville, Bill proposed to her.102 Hazel started laughing. She knew he couldn't be a husband. It wasn't just that he was promiscuous: She knew that now, with his resurgent fame, he was married to the world.
~ Richard D. Smith
The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
~ Jean Baudrillard
To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.
~ Richard Paige
Wow, he must get more ass than a toilet seat!
~ Kresley Cole
Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.
~ Émile Zola
Kohut noticed that grandiosity, rather than improving your sex life, either makes you impotent or makes you so promiscuous that you cannot sustain relationships and you put yourself in danger of getting AIDS and dying. In other words, grandiosity tends to destroy you if you don't face up it and learn how to regulate it.
~ Robert L. Moore
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
Lenina shook her head. Somehow, she mused, I hadn't been feeling very keen on promiscuity lately. There are times when one doesn't. Haven't you found that too, Fanny?
~ Aldous Huxley
Love was a lizard brain instinct. A survival mechanism bred into the species that was totally separate from reason. Women were extremely vulnerable during pregnancy, and children were helpless for many years. If humans didn't have a mechanism for cementing a pair bond, nothing would remain but selfishness and promiscuity. Certain animal species were wired in the same way. How
~ Douglas E. Richards
Riley made a simple but telling observation about both feminist and nonfeminist rape deniers. "They are all talking about sex and promiscuity," she said. But, she observed, "Rape is not about sex at all.
~ Jody Raphael
But even today, young women cannot afford to shrug off a reputation for promiscuity and attempts to turn the double standard on men simply provokes laughter. Sexual conquests enhance rather than detract from a young man's reputation—his past desirability to women increases his future success with others.
~ Anne Campbell
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
~ Mason Cooley
I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.
~ Dorothy Stratten
A lot of people judge bisexuality as 'being promiscuous' or something like that. But I believe you can love somebody; you can fall in love with a person's soul.
~ Vanessa Morgan
I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and energetic and kept their numbers within ecologically reasonable limits. The captive egrets were promiscuous, idle, overbreeding and presumably going to hell fast.
~ Russell Hoban