SEX QUOTES VIII

quotations about sex

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

KEVIN LEMAN

Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage


Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

ANATOLE FRANCE

Heretic's Handbook of Quotations

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He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination -- but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips if it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

TERRY PRATCHETT

The Fifth Elephant


Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Comedians

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The worst sex I've ever had has always been great.

VINCE MCMAHON

Esquire, January 2005

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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Familiar Territory

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The older a man the more grotesque people find his couplings, like the spasms of a dying animal.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians

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I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.

DAVID SEDARIS

interview, Bohemian, June 2009

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Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.

WOODY ALLEN

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

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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

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Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!"

SUSIE BRIGHT & JILL POSNER

Nothing But the Girl


No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

PHILIP ROTH

The Dying Animal

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Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

JACK LALANNE

interview, Playboy, 1984

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Vacation sex. So much better than home sex. Yeah. Because ... there's no pressure on the guy. Even if he doesn't perform that well, she's still on vacation.

RAY ROMANO

stand-up routine

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Sex is like riding a tandem bicycle--not because there is a lot of pedaling, but it is a skill and requires synchronizing--and people can improve. No one can do it well the first time or without practice or maybe even without coaching. Sex is also very personalized so you and your partner have to communicate about what you do and don't like.

BRUCE Y. LEE

"Why Women Are Losing Interest In Sex After A Year", Forbes, September 16, 2017


Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Blue Moon

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My springs is getting rusty, sleeping single like I do.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

HARRIET LERNER

"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012

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