“Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.”
Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist
“sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer”
— Don DeLillo, book Cosmopolis
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