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We have looked at some of the things that a female might do if she has been deserted by her mate. Bu...

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Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene

Consider again the mated pair with which we began the chapter. Both partners, as selfish machines, ‘...

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Richard DawkinsThe Selfish Gene

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowh...

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wi...

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I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceles...

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The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradi...

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Samael Aun WeorThe Mystery of the Golden Blossom

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

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Samael Aun WeorThe Three Mountains: The Autobiography of Samael Aun Weor

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life m...

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A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

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Sigmund FreudThe Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works

When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling con...

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To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them ...

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As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all ...

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Sexuality is the only drive that is in itself hindered, perverted: simultaneously insufficient and e...

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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth,...

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Sri AurobindoIntegral Yoga: Teaching and Method of Practice

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state.""Wouldn't think of it dearest....

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Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is u...

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The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have...

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Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it'...

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Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying...

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This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

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Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive s...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

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Thomas MannBriefe an Otto Grautoff

We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal....

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A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a ...

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Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from th...

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Thomas MooreThe Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love

Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green...

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

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Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometim...

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Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally ...

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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are...

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Walter MosleyKilling Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...

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Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and...

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The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in v...

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In the early stages the sexual needs will have the upper hand, in later stages the compulsive morali...

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Wilhelm ReichThe Mass Psychology of Fascism

The institution of marriage would be damaged. Ideologically, marital morality must be kept intact, i...

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Wilhelm ReichThe Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-governing Character Structure

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...

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A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forge...

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All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all th...

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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirit...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

I’m a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that’s not what I think of as sexy.

At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judg...

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Alain de BottonHow to Think More About Sex

It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being...

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Alain de BottonHow to Think More About Sex

Logically enough, the office and the nunnery have been singularly popular in the imaginations of por...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

My thoughts about pornography tend to revolve around the fact that while very few of us are zombies,...

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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if yo...

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Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come ...

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She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge...

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Sometimes Yoel had the feeling that it was not his sexual organ but his whole being that was penetra...

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Amos OzTo Know A Woman

Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be...

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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,’ I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced b...

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Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a ...

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A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it wo...

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Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelli...

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The real core of the feminist vision, its revolutionary kernel if you will, has to do with the aboli...

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Andrea DworkinOur Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been p...

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Angela CarterThe Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid ...

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Some days I feel more comfortable using sexuality in my work, and then some days I feel like being a...

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

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. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves...

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Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no...

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In a world where positive expressions of sexual longing connect us we will all be free to choose tho...

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Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it...

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Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, p...

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Bell hooksBlack Looks: Race and Representation

Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as ...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would h...

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The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with o...

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No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft no...

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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

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You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the ...

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If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic met...

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Camille PagliaSexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bot...

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So, no, this conversation is about gender. Some people will say, "Oh, but women have the real power:...

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I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all...

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The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexl...

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...I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there...

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... he couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Ye...

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Christopher IsherwoodLions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos a...

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Christopher IsherwoodLions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health ins...

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For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the f...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical ...

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For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on...

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Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

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She and Naomi had joked about the sexuality of camera apertures, that they needed to write a woman’s...

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Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...

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The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dang...

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Derren BrownHappy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stal...

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He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

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Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one...

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