Desire Quote by Sheila Jeffreys

“Heterosexuality is the traditional way of expressing love and romance; the act of enjoyment between opposite sexes. It is not only for the purpose…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

— Marguerite Duras

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through…

— Cheryl Clarke

“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of…

— Georges Bataille

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

— Bruce LaBruce

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

— Esther Perel

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather…

— Mortimer Adler

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse…

— Mortimer Adler

It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males…

— Alfred Kinsey

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or female, more…

— Nivedita Menon