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

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No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

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Jon KrakauerMissoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagi...

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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

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and sim...

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Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

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Kate BornsteinGender Outlaw: On Men

Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represe...

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Kathleen NorrisThe Virgin of Bennington

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with ...

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I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich a...

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Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in h...

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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's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take ...

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Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shan...

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To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the characte...

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When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there ...

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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...

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Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to y...

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It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibitio...

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There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms...

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Matt RidleyThe Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Landsman and Bina were married to each other for twelve years and together for five before that. Eac...

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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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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities o...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

For was this transformation of sex into discourse not governed by the endeavor to expel from reality...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

The nineteenth century and our own have been rather the age of multiplication: a dispersion of sexua...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

Through the various discourses, legal sanctions against minor perversions were multiplied; sexual ir...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumb...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of represen...

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Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Encouraged by her parents’ applause, the girl went on: “Do you think we take off our tops to give yo...

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

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The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of ...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

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

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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

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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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed...

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P. D. JamesThe Children of Men

I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of ...

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I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled str...

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Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing i...

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She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ...

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[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fu...

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Like the pagans of old, unaffected by climate, the British were now dancing around a giant phallus. ...

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Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confus...

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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