Unrealistic expectations Quote by Christopher Ryan

“So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that…

— Wallace Stegner

“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to…

— Cacilda Jethá

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe…

— Naomi Wolf

“Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.”

— Esther Perel

“I had found somebody who lived a life as unconventional as my own. She above anybody would understand that monogamy had nothing to do…

— Ron Jeremy

“A woman may be looked upon as an object for sexual satisfaction but her multifarious roles and diversified approaches make her a complex being…

— Dr. Amit Abraham

“I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves to believe…

— Marcel Proust

“Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves…

— John Hawkes

“despite its widespread denunciation, infidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.”

— Esther Perel

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin…

— Aeschylus

“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They…

— Jean Giraudoux

“When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge of our…

— Zoe Whittall