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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained t...

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Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utili...

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A maidenhead, the virgin's troubleIs well-compare-d to a bubbleon a navigable riverSoon 'tis touched...

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John ClareSelected Poems and Prose of John Clare

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is ...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for...

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I lay in bed last night and thought of G.P. I thought of being in bed with him. I wanted to be in be...

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Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.

I want to tell you what's really happened.""Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and m...

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I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ...

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In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five laye...

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But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...

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Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the c...

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This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, ...

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if ...

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Well, you finally got me," Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on hi...

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John IrvingThe World According to Garp

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and...

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A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childli...

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Sex is like money only too much is enough.

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getti...

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Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...

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the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity...

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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- tw...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everythi...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangel...

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Jonathan TropperThis is Where I Leave You

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anza...

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No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might hav...

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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flat...

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If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observati...

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Judith ButlerGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally...

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Judith ButlerGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yours...

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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're pr...

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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.

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Julian BarnesTalking It Over

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parent...

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La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I wen...

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Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greate...

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Karen HorneyNeurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into ...

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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

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Kate BornsteinGender Outlaw: On Men

We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's...

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Kate BornsteinGender Outlaws: The Next Generation

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

INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks inst...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s ri...

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I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn'...

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Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.

People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always ...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothi...

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A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, a...

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Kingsley AmisOne Fat Englishman

And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...

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Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

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

Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize yo...

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I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. Wha...

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—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as ...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

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As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture...

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue...

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Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the...

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Lester BangsPsychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

I can get on with someone really, really, really well… and if they’re no good at having sex with me,...

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There will be sex after death we just won't be able to feel it.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It ...

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One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...

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A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after tha...

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Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormou...

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Ludwig von MisesSocialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis

This religion gives you goals which are outside of reality. It enriches your fantasy life with uglin...

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One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and mayb...

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He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, wit...

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Sex is an emotion in motion.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

It's all about sex and territory,which are what will finish us offin the long run.

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormon...

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Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex

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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake

Even sex was no longer what it had once been, though he was still as addicted to it as ever. He felt...

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Margaret AtwoodOryx and Crake

How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches...

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Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex.

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his...

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A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would sa...

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I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name....

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Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber ...

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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...

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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is h...

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It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.