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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.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this na...

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To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his...

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I've never seen or touched anything.""Can you explain then how you had children?""You're right. It's...

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Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is fr...

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To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we...

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I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Withou...

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Mark HelprinA Soldier of the Great War

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexua...

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Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons....

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Mark TwainLetters from the Earth

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood...

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Marquis de SadeAline et Valcour

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its ut...

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Marquis de SadePhilosophy in the Boudoir

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more ...

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Marquis de SadeThe 120 Days of Sodom

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all uni...

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Marquis de SadeThe 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...

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Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent indepen...

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Matt GroeningChildhood Is Hell

May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still cons...

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You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.

Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quick...

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His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest ...

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The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from...

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Michael ChabonThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a...

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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in ord...

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There has been so much action in the past,” said D.H. Lawrence, “especially sexual action, a wearyin...

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It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we conv...

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Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than ...

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The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence...

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Sex at eighty-four is terrific especially the one in the winter.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The bod...

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for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, a...

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So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, make...

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The situation is very slightly solemn and thus embarrassing, as are all such situations when after t...

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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its ...

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As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched ...

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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition...

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She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a ...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fa...

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you're quite wrong there, Collie. One does miss sex. The body has a life of it's own. We do miss wha...

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When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.

The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerg...

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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, ...

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You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a...

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Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...

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It’s a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking ab...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Many women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won't respect them. This is not the...

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Neil StraussThe Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

Connected sex is a spiritual experience….It is spiritual because it’s a release from ego, a merging ...

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Neil StraussThe Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships

Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

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Nelson AlgrenA Walk on the Wild Side

All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why peop...

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when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, inv...

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What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want...

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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the ...

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Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little ...

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Nick HornbyHigh Fidelity

The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science an...

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Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I st...

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I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muc...

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When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that ...

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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighte...

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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.