quotations about sex
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
SIGMUND FREUD
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
WOODY ALLEN
Hollywood Ending
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Mon coeur mis à nu
Sex is a queer and incalculable solvent of human confidence.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
Jaffery
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Marriage and Morals
I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed--not sex--but sex was how we got there.
AMY HEMPEL
"Nashville Gone to Ashes"
To touch a person ... to sleep with a person ... is to become a pioneer ... a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Palimpsest
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical.
WILHELM REICH
The Function of the Orgasm
I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vice Magazine, February 28, 2010
You haven't got to be in love every time you go to bed.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
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
attributed, French Writers of the Past
I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.
KAREN MARIE MONING
Iced
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
HUGH HEFNER
Playboy, January 1974
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS
attributed, How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Sex expression is as vital a factor in human life as food and air.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Living My Life
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
Sex is so taboo, but we know we're all f***ing like rabbits.
AMAKA OSAKWE
"West Africa's Most Daring Designer", New Yorker, September 25, 2017
Seduction ... was both a science and art -- a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
DAN SIMMONS
Ilium