Quotes on Sexuality

Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

I thought that I was in heaven _x000D_ _x000D_ But I was sure surprised _x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven help me, I didn't see _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in your eyes_x000D_ _x000D_ You look like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Walk like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Talk like an angel_x000D_ _x000D_ But I got wise _x000D_ _x000D_ You're the devil in disguise _x000D_ _x000D_ Oh yes you are _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in disguise

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.