Quotes on Sexuality

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

I love being a female rapper and embracing my sexuality.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

I want it to be less about sexuality and more about being comfortable in who you fall in love with. If I meet someone and I like them, I don’t care if they’re a boy or a girl. You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk so openly about sex, we see movies and we read books; but when we are face to face with someone else, we forget our individual patterns; that we are unique. So we try to repeat other people's patterns, according to what we seen and what we heard. So most of us are very frustrated, because we don't accept our individuality as far as sex is concerned.