SEX QUOTES VIII

quotations about sex

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Familiar Territory

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Sex is like riding a tandem bicycle--not because there is a lot of pedaling, but it is a skill and requires synchronizing--and people can improve. No one can do it well the first time or without practice or maybe even without coaching. Sex is also very personalized so you and your partner have to communicate about what you do and don't like.

BRUCE Y. LEE

"Why Women Are Losing Interest In Sex After A Year", Forbes, September 16, 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


We demand that sex speak the truth ... and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves which we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

The History of Sexuality

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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


It's one thing to shoot a man, quite another to cast aspersions upon his lovemaking skills.

TERESA MEDEIROS

The Vampire Who Loved Me

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Sometimes sex is beautiful. More often, it is fun; funny; dangerous; dull; lethal; exciting enough to wilt crabgrass, and, for far too many practitioners, a chore quite comparable to taking out the garbage.

PHIL MUSICK

Pittsburgh Places, Pittsburgh People


Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Contra Gentiles

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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl

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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


I respect you ... and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God.

LISA KLEYPAS

Smooth Talking Stranger

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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

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Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Blue Moon

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Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.

DON DELILLO

Cosmopolis

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Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux

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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide

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The only sea I saw
Was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it.
Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

DYLAN THOMAS

Under Milk Wood


My springs is getting rusty, sleeping single like I do.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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Multi-tasking during sex should not be an option.

BRUCE Y. LEE

"Why Women Are Losing Interest In Sex After A Year", Forbes, September 16, 2017


When sex is readily available, it becomes far less of an issue. The anxiety of deprivation is gone, the dread of making excuses is gone; the guilt of withholding is gone. Talk about a great way to improve your relationship without talking!

PATRICIA LOVE

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It

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