Quotes on Sex

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.