Communication Quote by Charles Benedict

“This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going…

— David Foster Wallace

“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our…

— Michel Foucault

“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways…

— Preston Sprinkle

“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should do what…

— Kevin Hearne

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Celibacy is the most extreme of sexual perversions, after all.”

— Ada Palmer

Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

— Esther Perel

“As a gay man, the Church oppressed me and I walked willingly into its repressive and controlling arms. As a gay man, I willingly…

— Charles Benedict

“The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy”

— François Mauriac

“...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as…

— Joan Timmerman