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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
-Derek Jarman
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Oh Doris Lessing, my dear -- your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love -- any more than that other Anna's fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It's all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms -- like every family has color TV -- and we can all get on with the real business of life.
-Erica Jong
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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.
-Erica Jong
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.
-Erica Jong
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it
-Erica Jong
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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.
-June Jordan
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There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
-Florynce R. Kennedy
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
-Karl Kraus
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don
-Karl Kraus
Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990)
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Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
-Maggie Kuhn
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Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
-Milan Kundera
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This is the irrational season
Where love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.
-Madeleine L'Engle
Weather of the Heart 2001
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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
-Philip Larkin
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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.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
-Henri Lefebvre
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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.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
-Roger Lewis
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There isn't always sex, but there is always chocolate.
-Michael Lipsey
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
-Mario Vargas Llosa
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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.
-Anita Loos
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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you
-Sophia Loren
Quoted in Halliwell
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
-Madonna
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I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
-Madonna
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There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
-Norman Mailer
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