Quotes about sex

A collection of quotes on the topic of sex, likeness, can, women.

Best quotes about sex

„I think being humble is sexy.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

„Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.“

— Linus Torvalds Finnish-American software engineer and hacker 1969

Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference, video showing this phrase in one of Torvalds papers (time code: 48.44) https://web.archive.org/web/20071016215132/http://www.argentilinux.com.ar/doku.php/linux_videos_documentales:the_code_linux
Attributed

„I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.“

— Charles Bukowski, book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

„Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.“

— Gabriel García Márquez, book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

„I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.“

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

„Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.“

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)

„Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.“

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

„Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Variant: Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

„Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.“

— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

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„Satanism condones any type of sexual activity which properly satisfies your individual desires – be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also sanctions any fetish or deviation which will enhance your sex-life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.“

— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

Life

„A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. “

— Ville Valo Finnish rock musician 1976

Personality

„Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America.“

— Jim Carrey Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer 1962

Marriage, Horse

„Green Day is like sex. When we good we're really good! When we're bad… we're still pretty damn good!“

— Green Day

„Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.“

— James Baldwin (1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924 - 1987

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)

Money

„What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.“

— John Fowles British writer 1926 - 2005

Clothes

„Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored?“

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey 1881 - 1938

As quoted in "Atatürk" in Images of a Divided World (29 October 2006) http://jmilton6000.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/ataturk/
Variant translation: Humankind consists of two sexes, woman and man. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
Context: Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?

Women, Men, Parting

„I'm a born librarian with a sex drive“

— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016

„Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any…'

'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.“

— Charles Bukowski, book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

Money

„Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.“

— Ava Gardner American actress 1922 - 1990

Source: Ava: My Story

Love

„Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.“

— Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941

The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:
We were sitting one morning two Summers ago, Ferenc Molnár, Dr. Rudolf Kommer and I, in the little garden of a coffee-house in the Austrian Tyrol. “Your writing?” we asked him. “How do you regard it?” Languidly he readjusted the inevitable monocle to his eye. “Like a whore,” he blandly ventured. “First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for the pleasure of my friends. And now — I do it for money.”
Misattributed

Love, Money

„If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.“

— Judith Butler, book Gender Trouble

"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)

„The boys in my grade talked about sex a lot. Some of them even told me that they had sex with their girlfriends. This was the most devastating and traumatizing thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Boys having sex at my age of Fourteen? I couldn’t fathom it. How is it that they were able to have such intimate and pleasurable experiences with girls while I could only fantasize about it? I frequently started asking myself. This was an all-boys school… How in the hell were those boys even able to meet girls to have sex with? I wondered. I hoped they were lying. I hoped against all hope. […] and one of my obnoxious classmates named Jesse was bragging about having sex with his girlfriend. I defiantly told him that I didn’t believe him, so he played a voice recording of what sounded like him and his girlfriend having sex. I could hear a girl saying his name over and over again while she panted franticly. He grinned at me smugly. I felt so inferior to him, and I hated him.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14

Life, Hate, Pleasure, Age

„Sex class is so deep as to be invisible. Or it may appear as a superficial inequality, one that can be solved by merely a few reforms, or perhaps by the full integration of women into the labour force. But the reaction of the common man, woman, and child - That? Why you can't change that! You must be out of your mind!“

— Shulamith Firestone, book The Dialectic of Sex

is the closest to the truth. http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

Women, Truth, Appearance, Change

„Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.“

— G. E. M. Anscombe British analytic philosopher 1919 - 2001

Contraception and Chastity (1975)

Life, Penalty, Nature

„Just when you think that you thought that the guys in Billy Talent partied and did coke and had sex with all these hookers, we actually talk about architecture and, eh…history.“

— Ben Kowalewicz musician 1975

From "The Diary of Billy Talent":

Guy, History, Thinking

„I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bath-house.“

— David Hilbert German prominent mathematician 1862 - 1943

Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 143

Housing

„I have lived such an unnatural life, devoid of love, sex, and pleasure.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness

Love, Life, Pleasure

„Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex.“

— Rajneesh Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931 - 1990

From Sex to Superconsciousness
Context: Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.

God, Soul

„Well you know, I don’t think I have never really seen a film of this genre, where the female characters' sex appeal sort of came second. I mean of course they’re sexy characters.“

— Scarlett Johansson American actress, model, and singer 1984

Of her role as Black Widow in Iron Man 2, in Teen Hollywood (3 May 2010) http://www.teenhollywood.com/2010/05/03/interview-gwyneth-and-scarlett-iron-mans-ladies
Context: Well you know, I don’t think I have never really seen a film of this genre, where the female characters' sex appeal sort of came second. I mean of course they’re sexy characters. When you have a sexy secretary, or a girl swinging around by her ankles in a cat suit, you know that’s innately sexy, but the fact is that these characters are intelligent. They’re ambitious. They’re motivated and calculated to some degree.

Thinking

„I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.“

— John Green, book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter about Alaska Young, p. 88
Looking for Alaska (2005)

Courage, Sleep, People, Lie

„Sex education is the only subject that will arouse the mind without illuminating it.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Education

„There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.“

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer 1860 - 1935

Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 8.

„Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.“

— Andrea Dworkin, book Intercourse

Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: But the hatred of women is a source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the fucking. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Men, Truth

„Sex is the power of the soul.“

— Samael Aun Weor Colombian writer 1917 - 1977

Soul

„If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.“

— Margaret Atwood, book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Love

„It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…. how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]“

— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906

Education, School, Soul, Spring

„Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!“

— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

„I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.“

— Joan Crawford American actress 1904 - 1977

Source: My Way of Life

Love

„Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.“

— Luce Irigaray feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist 1930

Wisdom, Truth, Madness

„I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.“

— Ogden Nash American poet 1902 - 1971

Idea

„Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.“

— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996

Age

„Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.“

— Patricia Briggs, book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

Women

„Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.“

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

„There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.“

— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Existencilism (2002)

Food, Revenge, Sleep

„In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.“

— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

People, World, Thinking, Forgetting

„Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.“

— Thom Yorke English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

Pleasure, Feeling, Parting, Personality

„The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.“

— Christine de Pizan, book The Book of the City of Ladies

Cellui ou celle en qui plus a vertus est le plus hault, ne la haulteur ou abbaisement des gens ne gist mie es corps selon le sexe mais en la perfeccion des meurs et des vertus.
Part I, ch. 9, p. 24.
Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (c. 1405)
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies

Personality, Perfection

„Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.“

— David Lynch American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor 1946

Way

„Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe.“

— Steven Pinker psychologist, linguist, author 1954

Animals

„Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex, and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.“

— Billy Connolly British comedian 1942

An Audience With Billy - 1985

Love, Women, Men, Lie

„Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled.“

— Harlan Ellison American writer 1934 - 2018

Title of book (1968)

Love

„I had the endurance but not the brute strength that must be coupled with it. No woman has this combination. That's why I say none of my sex will ever accomplish that particular stunt.“

— Annette Kellerman Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer 1886 - 1975

Of swimming the English Channel; "Into Fame and Fortune", in The American Magazine, Vol. 83 (1917), p. 34

„In the 1970s I was amazed to be talked about as a ’60s sex symbol. I wasn’t that person, as if I were a doll from the past. I had to learn to come to terms with that. It’s funny, it’s silly, the ridiculousness of having asked so much of celebrity. Then it becomes really interesting and very much part of the excitement of the life you’re living now, knowing you’re approaching the end of it.“

— Julie Christie British actress and activist 1940

As quoted in "A Role About Winter for Julie Christie, a Star in Eternal Spring]" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (18 April 2007)

Life, Learning, Past, Parting

„I began to have fantasies of becoming very powerful and stopping everyone from having sex. I wanted to take their sex away from them, just like they took it away from me. I saw sex as an evil and barbaric act, all because I was unable to have it. This was the major turning point. My anger made me stronger inside. This was when I formed my ideas that sex should be outlawed. It is the only way to make the world a fair and just place. If I can’t have it, I will destroy it. That’s the conclusion I came to, right then and there.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 17

World, Way, Idea, Evil

„In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. … If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.“

— Camille Paglia American writer 1947

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 185

Thinking, Time

„Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.“

— Slavoj Žižek Slovene philosopher 1949

Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service (12 January 2010)

Love

„I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them… I think you should just wait for the person you're…in love with.“

— Justin Bieber Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994

Rolling Stone "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover Story" http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/justin-bieber-talks-sex-politics-music-and-puberty-in-new-rolling-stone-cover-story-20110216, February 2011

Love, Thinking, Waiting, Personality

„Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.“

— Alfred Kinsey American scientist (1894–1956) 1894 - 1956

Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948)

World, Behavior, Understanding, Nature

„Sex is wonderful, but it's like champagne. If you're forced to have four glasses at every meal you start to fantasize about a glass of water.“

— Stephen Clarke, book A Year in the Merde

On Sex
A Year in the Merde (2005)

Water

„The impression that infra-human mammals more or less confine themselves to heterosexual activities is a distortion of the fact which appears to have originated in a man-made philosophy, rather than in specific observations of mammalian behavior. Biologists and psychologists who have accepted the doctrine that the only natural function of sex is reproduction, have simply ignored the existence of sexual activity which is not reproductive. They have assumed that heterosexual responses are a part of an animal's innate, "instinctive" equipment, and that all other types of sexual activity represent "perversions" of the "normal instincts". Such interpretations are, however, mystical. They do not originate in our knowledge of the physiology of sexual response (Chapter 15), and can be maintained only if one assumes that sexual function is in some fashion divorced from the physiologic processes which control other functions of the animal body.“

— Alfred Kinsey American scientist (1894–1956) 1894 - 1956

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)

Behavior, Fashion, Nature, Knowledge

„I'm not a Starfleet commander, or T. J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170… [some audience members say "1"], or own a phaser. I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock [picture of Dr. Benjamin Spock is shown on screen behind him]. And no, I've never had green alien sex, but I'm sure it'd be quite an evening. [Pomp and Circumstance begins playing. ] I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan Ale! And when someone says to me 'live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg [nude picture of Dr. Ginsberg shown on screen]. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like Every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And I believe in Priceline. com, where you never have to pay full price for airline tickets, hotels, and car rentals! I've appeared on stage at Stratford, at Carnegie Hall, Albert Hall, and the Monkland Theatre in NDG. And, yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but… I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!“

— William Shatner Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author, and film director 1931

From a Just for Laughs appearance in a parody of the popular Molson "I Am Canadian" commercials (21 July 2007) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1648058156561008324&q=i+am+canadian.

Life, Cars, Drink, Appearance

„My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was five years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered me. Early on, seeing the devastation on my block, seeing heroin addicts, made me think twice about ever getting involved in drugs. It's evil. Once you take that step and experiment, drugs can take over your life. You are not yourself anymore. That's something I never wanted. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up. It was kind of just me and my parents. But because of them, the neighborhood did not have a bad effect on me. My dad introduced me to artists, and every few months we'd go to some hippie doo-dah parade as Mudmen in our underwear, carrying sticks and covered in mud. My mother did everything to get me into the best schools she could find.“

— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

Life, People, School, Guy

„Apart from sex linkage, we know almost nothing at present of linkage in man. Yet it is certain that every defect determined by a single factor must be located in one or other of twenty-three [sic] linkage groups. Each defect must therefore be linked in inheritance with numerous other observable traits, and with some of them is probably linked closely. The search for such linkage will certainly be lengthy, and at first, disappointing.“

— Ronald Fisher English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist 1890 - 1962

Eugenics, academic and practical. Eugenics Review, 27, 95-100, 1935
1930s

Disappointment, Search

„In organisms of all kinds the young are launched upon their careers endowed with a certain amount of biological capital derived from their parents. This varies enormously in amount in different species, but, in all, there has been, before the offspring is able to lead an independent existence, a certain expenditure of nutriment in addition, almost universally, to some expenditure of time or activity, which the parents are induced by their instincts to make for the advantage of their young. Let us consider the reproductive value of these offspring at the moment when this parental expenditure on their behalf has just ceased. If we consider the aggregate of an entire generation of such offspring it is clear that the total reproductive value of the males in this group is exactly equal to the total value of all the females, because each sex must supply half the ancestry of all future generations of the species. From this it follows that the sex ratio will so adjust itself, under the influence of Natural Selection, that the total parental expenditure incurred in respect of children of each sex, shall be equal; for if this were not so and the total expenditure incurred in producing males, for instance, were less than the total expenditure incurred in producing females, then since the total reproductive value of the males is equal to that of the females, it would follow that those parents, the innate tendencies of which caused them to produce males in excess, would, for the same expenditure, produce a greater amount of reproductive value; and in consequence would be the progenitors of a larger fraction of future generations than would parents having a congenital bias towards the production of females. Selection would thus raise the sex-ratio until the expenditure upon males became equal to that upon females.“

— Ronald Fisher, book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

On natural selection acting on sex ratio: Fisher's principle, Ch. 6, p. 141.
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

Children, Nature, Parent, Universe

„Sex is like money; only too much is enough.“

— John Updike, book Couples

Source: Couples (1968), Ch. 5

Money

„I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.“

— Sarah Grimké American abolitionist 1792 - 1873

Letter 2 (July 17, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

God

„Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz?"“

— Robin Williams American actor and stand-up comedian 1951 - 2014

Is that rude?
Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)

„Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.“

— Jenna Jameson, book How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale (2004)

Reading

„After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise—then you should do it. But you could really save yourself a lot of trouble either way by first figuring out whether you're an energy-getter or an energy-loser. As I said, I'm an energy-loser. But I can understand it when I see people running around trying to get some.“

— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: Work

People, Way, Exercises, Understanding

„I don't… like… girls… whining… and complaining… about… wanting a man! I never liked Sex and the City, the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find the Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love. Somebody once said, Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone. Everythingyoucouldpossiblywant!“

— Jennifer Aniston television and film actress from the United States 1969

Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)

Love, Women, World, Feeling

„No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes; yet what else should he do if he wishes to understand why the sexes are, in fact, always two?“

— Ronald Fisher, book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Preface, p. ix.
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930)

Understanding

„Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.“

— Snoop Dogg American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1971

Interview with BASE Magazine (April 2005).

Love, Beauty, Dance

„When I spoke about Bond with Fleming, he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish -- such as a taste for special wines, et cetera. But if you take Bond in the situations that he is constantly involved with, you see that it is a very hard, high, unusual league that he plays in. Therefore he is quite right in having all his senses satisfied -- be it sex, wine, food or clothes -- because the job, and he with it, may terminate at any minute. But the virtues that Amis mentions -- loyalty, honesty -- are there, too.“

— Sean Connery Scottish actor and producer 1930

PLAYBOY interview November 1965.

Food, Sense, Wine, Loyalty

„Sex and murder are the same. Well, you say the same after both don't you? "Damn I got to get the hell out of here!"“

— Dave Attell comedian 1965

"What was I thinking!"
Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell

Hell, Thinking

„Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.“

— Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

People

„Satanism does not encourage orgiastic activity or extramarital affairs for those to whom they do not come naturally. For many, it would be very unnatural and detrimental to be unfaithful to their chosen mates. To others, it would be frustrating to be bound sexually to just one person. Each person must decide for himself what form of sexual activity best suits his individual needs. Self deceitfully forcing yourself to be adulterous or to have sex partners when not married just for the sake of proving others (or worse yet, to yourself) that you are emancipated from sexual guilt is just as wrong, by Satanic standards, as leaving any sexual need unfulfilled because of ingrained feelings of guilt.“

— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

Unfaithfulness, Feeling, Nature, Personality

„The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.“

— Klaus Kinski German actor 1926 - 1991

Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 179

„I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.“

— John Wayne Gacy American serial killer and torturer 1942 - 1994

Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000.

„The Spring of 2013 was also the time when I came across the website PUAHate. com. It is a forum full of men who are starved of sex, just like me … though unlike me they would be too cowardly to act on it.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness

Men, Spring, Time

„How dare those girls give their love and sex to those other men and not me, I constantly think when I see young couples. There is nowhere in the world I can go anymore. There is no more life to live. The Day of Retribution is all I have. It is the final solution to all of the injustices of this twisted world. By doing this, I will set right all of the wrongs I’ve had to face in my sorry excuse of a life.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Final Days

Love, Life, Men, World

„I didn’t feel comfortable with American children. I certainly knew more about sex and drugs by the time I was eleven than they would ever know. My father used to ask me when I was thirteen if I needed a diaphragm. I said, ‘No, Dad, really, I’m still a virgin.’ He said, ‘you let me know when you’re not.“

— Michelle Phillips Singer, actress 1944

On returning to California after having spent her early childhood in Mexico City, Rolling Stone no. 259 (February 23, 1978)

Children, Feeling, Time

„I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?“

— Sharon Tate actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers 1943 - 1969

Quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000), by Greg King

Love, Children, People, Making love

„[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It’s about familiarity, and I think the only reason they’re uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven’t come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it’s about love—and that it is a civil right.“

— Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Curve Magazine Interview (Summer 2009) http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2008/Goodbye-to-Romance/.

Love, Marriage, Understanding, Thinking

„Homosexuality is a crime against Nature. All Nature declares the purpose of the instinct for sexual union is reproduction and thus, preservations of the specie. The overpowering male sex drive must be channeled toward possession of females, as well as elements such as territory and power, which are necessary to keep them.“

— David Lane (white nationalist), book 88 Precepts

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88 Precepts

Nature

„The inherent physiologic capacity of an animal to respond to any sufficient stimulus seems, then, the basic explanation of the fact that some individuals respond to stimuli originating in other individuals of their own sex-and it appears to indicate that every individual could so respond if the opportunity offered and one were not conditioned against making such responses. There is no need of hypothesizing peculiar hormonal factors that make certain individuals especially liable to engage in homosexual activity, and we know of no data which prove the existence of hormonal factors (p. 758). There are no sufficient data to show that specific hereditary factors are involved. Theories of childhood attachments to one or the other parent, theories of fixation at some infantile level of sexual development, interpretations of homosexuality as neurotic or psychopathic behavior or moral degeneracy, and other philosophic interpretations are not supported by scientific research, and are contrary to the specific data on our series of female and male histories.“

— Alfred Kinsey American scientist (1894–1956) 1894 - 1956

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)

Behavior, History, Support, Parent

„He was my comrade in virginity, for he too didn’t get any attention from girls, and I’m sure he suffered from it, but not as much as I did. I was very perplexed as to why he didn’t feel any anger towards girls for denying him sex.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Understanding of Relationships

Feeling, Girl, Suffering, Anger

„Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they’re not doing it right you’ve got to speak up and show them and if you still don’t get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.“

— Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Q&A at the L5 Convention, Blackpool, UK (16 November 2008) http://www.jennifer-beals.com/reports/L5.html

„In larger terms, it is as natural for a man to love a man, and for a woman to love a woman, as it is to show love for the opposite sex. For that matter, it is more natural to be bisexual.“

— Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984

Session 769, Page 61
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)
Context: In larger terms, it is as natural for a man to love a man, and for a woman to love a woman, as it is to show love for the opposite sex. For that matter, it is more natural to be bisexual.

Love, Nature

„The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.“

— Rollo May, book Love and Will

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 3 : Eros in Conflict with Sex, p. 73
Context: Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release. Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand.

„I eventually grew to hate him after I heard him having sex with my sister. I arrived at the house one day, my mother being at work, and heard the sounds of Samuel plunging his penis into my sister’s vagina through her closed room door, along with my sister’s moans. I stood there and listened to it all. So my sister, who was four years younger than me, managed to lose her virginity before I did.“

— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Permavirgin

Sister, Housing, Hate

„Then, there is the secret life.
There, alone and in our own realm;
Here, we fantasize about sex, romance,
and being wealthy. No one knows.
Except, when we cross over
and violate societal mores. We betray,
experience relationships that would be scorned
in the other two lives. And to the extent we deviate
from the norms, the greater amount of time
is expended for clandestine pursuits.
And we stay here, because it’s addictive.“

— RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

2003
From the poem, "The Addictive Life.”

Secret, Time, Life