Sex
Quotes - People don't want children to know what they need to know
“I
was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a
field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the
show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Her
underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I
thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a
pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection
nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I
wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I
cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes
staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile.
Five layers between us.”
―
John Green
“What
freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped
and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom
is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”
―
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“If
you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it
worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it
has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.”
―
Dashiell Hammett
“We
want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to
have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes
and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and
another, until they die. Women,’ and I thought I’d better pick my words
carefully when describing a gender I didn’t belong to, ‘want a relationship.
They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it,
but ultimately that’s what they want. That’s the goal. Men do not have goals.
Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football
pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich,
or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for
the fact that they have no real goals.’
‘Bollocks,’
said Ronnie.
‘That,
of course, is the other main difference.”
―
Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
“When
You Weren't Looking
...why.
...Can't
you
...care
...more
...about
...me.”
―
Ellen Hopkins, Tricks
“I
am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of
scotch stalks an alcoholic.”
―
Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
“In
the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard
to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose
approval and attention they seek.”
―
M. Gigi Durham, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and
What We Can Do About It
“People
don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to
know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant
battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you
imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're
old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern.
Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious
mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”
―
Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
“Sexual
energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that
moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is
right).”
―
Alexandra Katehakis, Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in
Recovery from Sex Addiction
“Ain't
No Drama Like Bedroom Drama”
―
Renata Johnson
“my
child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need...
learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.”
―
Carlos Barrios
“No
one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.”
―
Richard Kelly
“The
religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus
indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible
in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and
of the universe.”
―
Milan Kundera, Slowness
“What
a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is
taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow
affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your
life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go
down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not
clean, it's not containable.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
“If
you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old
male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex,
what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc”
―
Kate White, How to Set His Thighs on Fire: 86 Red-Hot Lessons on Love, Life,
Men, and (Especially) Sex
