We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
“You know, when I see a good-looking man, the first thing I think about is sex. I want to see him naked,… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“He shifted over her, redistributing his weight. He was so hard all over, pressing against her soft flesh. His muscled chest flattened… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and bit her bottom lip. I found it to be such an erotic… — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
“You need to understand something, Krissy,” he began, taking careful steps towards me. “Whenever I drop the words ‘gonna shower’, it means,… — S. Ann Cole Copy Share Image
“There’s a price for not taking care of yourself as you claim you do so well.” His eyes lift to mine and… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“Reaching for the basket of sex accoutrements, she took a thin, red tube, squeezed some clear gel onto her fingertips and returned… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She felt a pang of excitement as she realized it was not Mr. Hunt but Matthew Swift. He rose from his chair,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Merrill Hartweiss scales a rocky incline toward Renna. The noon sun bakes the hillside as Merrill's boots dig into the broiling sands.… — Angel Rosa Copy Share Image
pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
She’s the wild, feline, untamed part of you, your sexual alter ego and the opposite of the “good girl” or “little lady.”… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
“But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
“Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't… — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When I worked on an erotic shoot... I shot digitally. It helped the models get into it because they could come over… — Rankin Copy Share Image
Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that… — Julianne Davidow Copy Share Image
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
“I think we are doing poor sex education if we don't look at how erotic behavior actually takes place, and offer people… — Tristan Taormino Copy Share Image
The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“I always thought there were like seven continents.” Crazzee was kind of an expert in geography. One of her ex-boyfriends had a… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
“Jason woke to a feeling of fear, borne from a dream that he couldn’t remember when waking. But as his mind focused,… — Derendrea Copy Share Image
“Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and the gorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” –… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
