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“I became a diligent condom carrier and when most subsequent lovers had the good fortune to lie under my grunting, sweaty mass, they were…

— Rob Delaney

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person…

— Siri Hustvedt

“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the…

— Audre Lorde

“The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in…

— Anonymous

“Desperate and dammed persons share an affinity for flirting with danger; an infectious case of erotic morbidity fetters them to self-destruction.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The power and omnipresence of the sexual drive: Next to the love of life it shows itself here as the strongest and most active…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I had always considered sex an ultimate sticky reality, the least mediated contact possible with another body. Instead, after that experience, I was convinced…

— Elena Ferrante

“wanted an operation, not the boy-making kind, but a lever in the flesh, one I could permanently switch to off. I longed for immunity,…

— Dorothy Allison

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

“There is a schism in me, between the erotic and the intimate. One, by definition, negates the other. For me the pursuit of sensuality…

— Tobsha Learner