quotations about sex
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The God Delusion
A woman with a well-stocked toy drawer isn't dependent on anyone and is unlikely to hurl herself at a lowlife just for nooky.
ARIANNE COHEN
Marie Claire, March 2008
When it comes to being a good lover, a guy has to ask a girl what she wants and be willing to give it to her.
JENNA JAMESON
interview, AskMen, July 20, 2007
The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Dragon Blood
The caresses over which love presides are always pure.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces.
RITA MAE BROWN
Alma Mater
Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?
ERIC RUCKER EDDISON
Mistress of Mistresses
The original sexual revolution was a tour de force, a huge success that came from what at first glance looks like a bad idea. Why bad? Because it risked losing valuable information. A successful bacterium, reproducing asexually, passes on its exact genetic makeup (absent the occasional mutation) to its offspring. But if an organism reproduces sexually, its genes are scrambled with those of its mate in order to produce the offspring's genes, a process called recombination. Because each half of this offspring's genes came from a different parent, and because of the scrambling process, no matter how successful either parent's unique combination of genes, the offspring's genome will not be the same as that parent's. Sexual reproduction has never passed on a full winning combination intact. Sex messes with success.
SETH LLOYD
Programming the Universe
Sex: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great cordial and the reverently reserved wine of wines.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.
WALTER LIPPMANN
Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
It's been a long day. I need one of those hugs that turns into sex.
ANONYMOUS
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
MARY MCCARTHY
The Group
Morning sex: proven to be more effective than coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Einstein's Dreams
Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Mrs. Richard Stockton, September 2, 1783
Sex is like bridge, if you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
MAE WEST
attributed, Lying Fully Clothed
To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
DAN SIMMONS
The Rise of Endymion
At this moment we are as close as people can ever hope to be. Our hearts have beaten together, our bodies have merged. Right now I know what love is. I know how it feels to be not completely alone. Right now I know you as I have never known anybody else.
PETER ABRAHAMS
A Night of Their Own