quotations about sex
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
Multi-tasking during sex should not be an option.
BRUCE Y. LEE
"Why Women Are Losing Interest In Sex After A Year", Forbes, September 16, 2017
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
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
The Mountebank
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
ALAN HOLLINGHURST
The Folding Star
Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
LARRY NIVEN
Ringworld
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
Baby, in a world without pity,
Do you think what I'm askin's too much?
I just want to feel you in my arms,
Share a little of that Human Touch.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Human Touch"
People take sex far too seriously.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Newsweek, July 31, 2006
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
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
DON DELILLO
Cosmopolis
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
It's one thing to shoot a man, quite another to cast aspersions upon his lovemaking skills.
TERESA MEDEIROS
The Vampire Who Loved Me
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.
SETH LLOYD
"Move Aside, Sex", The Edge Annual Question--2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Sex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. If you just recognize this and manage, out of yourself, out of your own talent and nature, out of your own experience and childhood and strength, to achieve a wholly individual relation to sex (one that is not influenced by convention and custom), then you will no longer have to be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your dearest possession.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
letter, Letters to a Young Poet, July 16, 1903
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
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
interview, HARDtalk, January 12, 2010
The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand, there are expressions of admiration for the reportedly virgin mother of Jesus, but other portions of scripture speak quite accommodatingly of polygamy.
STEVE ALLEN
Vulgarians at the Gate
Copulation is spiritual in essence--or it is merely friendly exercise. On second thought, strike out "merely." Copulation is not "merely"--even when it is just a happy pastime for two strangers. But copulation at its spiritual best is so much more than physical coupling that it is different in kind as well as in degree.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long