quotations about sex
With his venom
irresistible
and bittersweet
that loosener
of limbs, Love
reptile-like
strikes me down
SAPPHO
With His Venom
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
Ultimately, love is much more important than sex and sex becomes greater when you're really in love.
CALVIN KLEIN
Playboy, May 1984
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
NORMAN MAILER
attributed, Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work
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
Morning sex: proven to be more effective than coffee.
ANONYMOUS
Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.
MARTIN AMIS
The Rachel Papers
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
The cry of flesh calling to flesh must be the strongest thing in the world.
WILLIAM GAY
Provinces of Night
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
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
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
We made love. How pedestrian the words look--trite, worn, practically featureless with use--but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? that creation? that magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow ... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky ... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light ... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
Sex is interesting but not totally important. I mean, it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor
In America, sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH
attributed, Wise Women: Wit and Wisdom from Some of the World's Most Extraordinary Women
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
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
MARY MCCARTHY
The Group
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