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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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Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double p...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysteri...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...

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I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the c...

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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...

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I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. P...

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...modern Western culture has placed what it calls sexuality in a more and more distinctively privil...

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The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn’t be gay. I’ve been attracted mostly to ‘shes’ but ...

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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them...

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He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her an...

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The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a ...

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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true m...

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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

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It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

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To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look ...

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It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your...

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Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase

Girls have periods and boys wank. Everybody.

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a m...

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Henry MillerTropic of Cancer

No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: …there’s a vast new intimacy and acc...

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Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own ...

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J. G. BallardThe Kindness of Women

Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is n...

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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering swe...

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The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t...

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Jeanette WintersonArt & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big ...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.

You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway trai...

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I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me...

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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe's Roman Elegies and Venetian Epigrams

Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in a...

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls fr...

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the ...

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Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing ...

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