“Flirting and foreplay came easy to Erica. Before she’d turned twenty, Erato awakened inside her. Erato was the Greek Muse of Lyrics…… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Sex with Lucien was a cross between the most sweeping romantic movie and the filthiest porn flick: he was feather gentle and… — Kitty French Copy Share Image
What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
“Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Oh, please, spare me the male ego. I'm not repulsed by sex, and I can reach an orgasm as well as any… — Sandra Hill Copy Share Image
“What is it about Paris that I just can’t keep my hands off of you?” I ask him in between kisses. “It… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I was in the habit of calling a kiss a peck. Bulkaen had said “a smack.” As erotic language, such as we… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“He misinterpreted it. "It is a gift," he said stiffly. Wounded, proud prince. I touched his face. He'd given me my mom… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I just want, she said when he’d finally broken down her defenses. And so had he. He’d wanted her to desire him,… — Shelby Reed Copy Share Image
“His words thrummed in, deep, imprinting themselves on her very deepest, deepest, deep bits. “I believe I am your destiny. You are… — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
“What was the matter with her? She'd already decided she didn't want to make love with him, so why did she keep… — Jane Toombs Copy Share Image
“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“In our minds we can proceed without hesitation to the place we might never go in our own lives. There is an… — K. Kiker Copy Share Image
“She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. “Are you trying to steal the reins from me?” Even with… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of the textures and… — Jacqueline Obradors Copy Share Image
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become -… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Him dressed. Me naked. It's always very erotic and I can feel his temperature rising as he is about to leave for… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“No relationship is without erotic feeling," Evelyn said. She had heard it somewhere at a cocktail party, an academic cocktail party. Someone… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“I love being aroused. I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“What have I done to anger you, mate?” “That. That’s what you did. I’m not your mate.” He leaned in close and… — Virginia Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“A hardly noticeable stroke of the finger tips, the arm, or even clothes, can produce an erotic excitement, stronger than a close… — Charlotte Wolff, M.D Copy Share Image
“Books—even erotic ones … especially erotic ones—are simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about it, the more I began to grasp the fact that I was being offered a life changing… — Michael Bayswater Copy Share Image
Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
