Birth Quote by Jock Sturges

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

— Jock Sturges

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is…

— Octavio Paz

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“We’ll show that human beings evolved in intimate groups where almost everything was shared—food, shelter, protection, child care, even sexual pleasure. We don’t argue…

— Christopher Ryan

“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary…

— Abhijit Naskar

“One finding is important for understanding the nature of our sexuality as men. That is that male infants, in the womb, have regular erections—so…

— Stephen Harrod Buhner

“It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal from a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel…

— Audre Lorde

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers…

— Lynn Margulis