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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.
-Thomas Robert Malthus
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Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.
-Groucho Marx
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A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be available.
-Masters and Johnson
Masters and Johnson
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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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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.
-Marshall McLuhan
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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.
-Margaret Mead
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
-Bette Midler
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Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.
-George Mikes
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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.
-Alyssa Milano
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
-Henry Miller
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
-Henry Miller
Sexus, ch. 21 (1949)
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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.
-Kate Millet
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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.
-Kate Millet
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A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
-Marilyn Monroe
As quoted in Ms. magazine, p. 40, August, 1972
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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.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
Down with Sex, The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (1966)
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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
-Anais Nin
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Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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Skill makes love unending.
-Ovid
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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.
-Camille Anna Paglia
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
-Camille Anna Paglia
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Sex is metaphysical for men, as it is not for women. Women have no problem to solve through sex. Physically and psychologically, they are serenely self-contained. They may choose to achieve, but they do not need it. They are not thrust into the beyond by their own fractious bodies. But men are out of balance; they must quest, pursue, court, or seize.... How often one spots a male pigeon making desperate, self-inflating sallies toward the female, as again and again she turns her back on him and nonchalantly marches away. But by concentration and insistence he may carry the day. Nature has blessed him with an obliviousness to his own absurdity.
-Camille Anna Paglia
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch. 1, Yale University Press (1990)
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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.
-Bill Paxton
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I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.
-Cynthia Payne
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Books about Sex
