Desire Quote by Volkmar Sigusch Download Open image “Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.” — Volkmar Sigusch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Exaggerated Portrayal Repression
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very religious and… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I maintain that we are still a largely ignorant society when it comes to sex. We speak incorrectly and superficially about sexuality. And when… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small family -… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
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