quotations about sex
Sex is not always a choice
lovingly made and enjoyed like
plump well-handled self-chosen fruit
teeth sinking into soft flesh in a dribble of pleasure.
Nevertheless
it abounds.
Some because it is the
truth of their being.
Some to deny, negate, sate
deep yearning, wordless, timeless.
CHRIS ABANI
"Passion Fruit", Kalakuta Republic
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
DON DELILLO
Cosmopolis
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS
Collected Poems
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 which we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
The History of Sexuality
Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
When sex is readily available, it becomes far less of an issue. The anxiety of deprivation is gone, the dread of making excuses is gone; the guilt of withholding is gone. Talk about a great way to improve your relationship without talking!
PATRICIA LOVE
How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
My springs is getting rusty, sleeping single like I do.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
It's one thing to shoot a man, quite another to cast aspersions upon his lovemaking skills.
TERESA MEDEIROS
The Vampire Who Loved Me
If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.
TED TURNER
Playboy, August 1978
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
EMMA GOLDMAN
lecture, "The Social Importance of the Modern School", Red Emma Speaks
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Last time I had sex I was so good I got a standing ovation. Well, actually, I just got the clap.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book is Not For Sale
I felt an angel's possessing grip, the flames
rising from your skin,
the shadow of the divine.
EDWARD HIRSCH
O Magazine, February 2007
In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.
RAY ROMANO
Everything and a Kite
There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration).
ELLEN WILLIS
"Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life", Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade
She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Sex isn't everything. It's not even the most important thing. But when sex goes off the rails, there is probably a lot more wrong in the relationship than right.
JOHN MCELHENNEY
"As Goes the Sex So Goes the Marriage", The Good Men Project, August 26, 2017
I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on this planet to please men, that they have to fake, and they never worry about their own pleasure.
JENNA JAMESON
interview, May 17, 2007
Individuals having sex is like taking two raw eggs, which each is inclusive of their own yokes and egg whites, cracking the eggs, putting them in a bowl and thoroughly mixing them. This in itself forms a bond that cannot be untangled.
WILLIAM GARRETT DAVIS
The Christian's Guide to Mate Selection and Marital Preparation