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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

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