Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.”

— Kristie LeVangie

“The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into…

— Siri Hustvedt

“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies and the…

— Earl Warhus

“There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life…

— Abhijit Naskar

“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to…

— Audre Lorde

“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated to go…

— Hermann Broch

“Everything satisfies precisely. Engorge sticky pricks. Enrage secret processes. Endure sexy pretense. Emerge surrounded parasitically. Energy sufficiently pulverized. Erection scoff prevention. Endorphin scream passage.…

— Grace Krilanovich

“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.”

— Roman Payne

“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At…

— James Allen

“...a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that I had…

— Robin Hobb

I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the…

— Ana Mendieta

“When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy,…

— Caroline Knapp