Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
Interpretation
Men often face significant limitations in expressing their sexuality, even within marriage.
This quote by Alfred Kinsey highlights the societal and psychological barriers that many men face in fully experiencing sexual freedom, even in committed relationships like marriage. Kinsey suggests that these inhibitions are often unrecognized, leading to a lack of fulfillment in intimate connections.
In practice
In discussions about marital intimacy at a relationship seminar.
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.
Iβm not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. Iβm not a girl anymore and Iβm not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say βWow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?β You think Iβll be the dark sky so you can be the star? Iβll swallow you whole.
You can't make homes out of human beings.
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other
Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing β or not doing β better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.
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