There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.
—H. G. Wells (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo—or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
—Gore Vidal (1925–48) American Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–90) English Journalist, Author, Satirist, Media Personality
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
—George Burns (1896–1996) American Comedian
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
—Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol (1928–87) American Painter, Printmaker, Film Personality
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
—Unknown
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I’m hoping that by the time I’m seventy I’ll straighten it out.
—Harold Robbins (1916–97) American Novelist, Writer
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance
—Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British Essayist, Physician
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
—Kate Millet (1934–2017) American Feminist, Writer, Sculptor
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful – provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) British Novelist, Essayist, Biographer
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its’ the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
—Unknown
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
—Bette Midler (b.1945) American Actress, Singer
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-American Film Actress, Cabaret Performer
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English Humanist, Pacifist, Satirist, Short Story Writer
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
—Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American Writer, Philosopher
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–94 ) American First Lady
Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me)—Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
—Philip Larkin (1922–85) English Poet, Librarian, Novelist
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
—Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American Novelist Essayist
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
—Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) French Philosopher, Writer, Feminist
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
—Sophia Loren (b.1934) Italian Actor
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
—George Burns (1896–1996) American Comedian
Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.
—Gamaliel Bailey (1807–59) American Journalist
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