quotations about sex
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
WOODY ALLEN
Hollywood Ending
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Mon coeur mis à nu
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
SIGMUND FREUD
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Marriage and Morals
To touch a person ... to sleep with a person ... is to become a pioneer ... a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Palimpsest
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS
attributed, How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
Sex is a queer and incalculable solvent of human confidence.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
Jaffery
"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.
MARQUIS DE SADE
L'Histoire de Juliette
You haven't got to be in love every time you go to bed.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
HUGH HEFNER
Playboy, January 1974
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed--not sex--but sex was how we got there.
AMY HEMPEL
"Nashville Gone to Ashes"
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical.
WILHELM REICH
The Function of the Orgasm
Yet this desire will never find full satisfaction outside the God-designed safeguards of entering into the commitment and covenant of marriage and approaching sex as the route to oneness, rather than orgasm. When we remove those safeguards, having sex is like taking the hard drive out of a computer, laying it on a table, and expecting the hard drive to accomplish the role it was created for. By itself, it won'd do you any good.
TIM ALAN GARDNER
The Naked Soul
I don't believe in casual sex, because meaningless sex is mad boring and frankly, in this day and age, not worth the risk.
ZANE
Dear G. Spot
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this ... these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one's beloved.
DAN SIMMONS
The Rise of Endymion
Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do -- like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.
MARTIN AMIS
interview, Washington Post, November 7, 2003