Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow… — Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of… — Susan G. Cole Copy Share Image
I'm very conditioned by my surroundings, by the influences of social media, by the television I watch. And I always found, growing… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
“No, my discovery was sex: of sex, by sex, fo r sex. This new-uncovered country, prohibited by the fascism of sensitivity, a… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed?… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
For some people, the experience of sexuality is that they are entirely inside their body, but others feel they have totally transcended… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them.… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Man often accords the sexual urge a merely biological significance and does not fully realize its true, existential significance - its link… — Pope John Paul Copy Share Image
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“And yet another part of me knew that if he showed up tonight and I disliked the start of whatever was in… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of naïve young women… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man’s… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out"… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That having sex with someone you do not care for feels lonelier than not having sex in the first place, afterward. That… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has… — Anne Fausto-Sterling Copy Share Image
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of primordial adventure still left to most of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Margaret Cho is definitely one of the people, like just watching or hearing her stand up back in the days when stand-up… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image