Quotes about sex

"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

Gourmont, Remy De on sex   

"If I were asked for a one line answer to the question What makes a woman good in bed? I would say, A man who is good in bed."

Guccione, Bob on sex
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"The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on sex   

"Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on sex   

"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody."

Heche, Anne on sex   

"I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?"

James, P. D. on sex   

"I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear."

Jong, Erica on sex   

"If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic."

Jordan, June on sex   

"There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody."

Kennedy, Florynce R. on sex
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"Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work."

Kraus, Karl on sex   

"Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP."

Larkin, Philip on sex   

"I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C."

Lawrence, D. H. on sex   

"That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail."

Loos, Anita on sex   

"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on sex
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"The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity."

Malthus, Thomas Robert on sex   

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"Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy."

Marx, Groucho on sex
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"For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder."

Mcluhan, Marshall on sex   

"Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too."

Mead, Margaret on sex   

"Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles."

Mikes, George on sex   

"I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. When I'm having sex, I don't have that."

Milano, Alyssa on sex   

"What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."

Miller, Henry on sex   

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant."

Miller, Henry on sex
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"Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane."

Millet, Kate on sex   

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."

Millet, Kate on sex   

"After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on sex   

"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on sex
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"Skill makes love unending."

Ovid on sex
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"We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes."

Paglia, Camille on sex   

"You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered."

Paglia, Camille on sex
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"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."

Paxton, Bill on sex   

"I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea."

Payne, Cynthia on sex   

"In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions."

Plato on sex   

"There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed."

Pope, Alexander on sex   

"The backseat produced the sexual revolution."

Rubin, Jerry on sex   

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."

Sade, Marquis De on sex
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"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."

Sanger, Margaret on sex   

"Hair is another name for sex."

Sassoon, Vidal on sex   

"Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification."

Sharif, Omar on sex   

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup -- that's good in bed."

Shields, Brooke on sex   

"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex."

Silverstone, Alicia on sex