quotations about sex
Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
GARRISON KEILLOR
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"Could I have been any more inept?", Salon, October 26, 1999
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
SETH LLOYD
Programming the Universe
If doctors could prescribe sex, they would.
TRACEY COX
"8 health benefits of great sex", Net Doctor, September 4, 2017
The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
The only way to emerge from the bleak quagmire of a moribund sex life is to listen to each other's needs.
ANDY HILL
"Your relationship is failing because you don't put out enough", Metro, September 9, 2017
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS
Collected Poems
I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.
JAMES BALDWIN
If Beale Street Could Talk
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.
DAVID LEVITHAN
The Lover's Dictionary
Sex is like the cherry on the top of a sundae, but you need to make the sundae first, if you get my drift.
ZANE
Dear G. Spot
The worst sex I've ever had has always been great.
VINCE MCMAHON
Esquire, January 2005
Our interest in sex is no longer to annihilate it, but to educate it, to find civilized opportunities for its expression.
WALTER LIPPMANN
Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Research has proven that we burn 3.6 calories per minute during sex -- more than during a brisk walk.
RICHARD JONES
"Six reasons why sex is the best exercise (apart from the obvious)", The Telegraph, August 30, 2017
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Comedians
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
APHRA BEHN
The Emperor of the Moon
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.
PHILIP ROTH
The Dying Animal
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.
DAVID SEDARIS
interview, Bohemian, June 2009
OK, not everyone's desire is the same. No one can tell you how much sex you should want. A sexless relationship or marriage is not necessarily a bad one, as long as, here's the key, both people are genuinely happy with that. Ultimately, relationships are about fit.
BRUCE Y. LEE
"Why Women Are Losing Interest In Sex After A Year", Forbes, September 16, 2017
Sex can keep you fit. Quickies of 20 minutes weekly mean 7,500 calories annually, that's as much as you consume jogging 120km. A sex session can burn about 200 calories. This is like running 15 minutes on a treadmill.
TRACEY COX
"8 health benefits of great sex", Net Doctor, September 4, 2017
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination -- but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips if it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The Fifth Elephant
Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!"
SUSIE BRIGHT & JILL POSNER
Nothing But the Girl