Quotes on Sex

You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

At any age, we struggle with intimacy. When you're a kid, you think, 'I won't have that problem. I'll have sex whenever I want when I'm a grown-up!' And then, somehow, it doesn't quite turn out that way, and it's so surprising to people that connection remains so challenging even when you're married.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.