Quotes about sex

„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

„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

„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

„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)

„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)

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

—  Green Day

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

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

„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.

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

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

„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.

„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

„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

p. 179

„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

„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":

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

—  Вилле Вало Finnish rock musician 1976

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

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

„If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.“

—  Dashiell Hammett American writer 1894 - 1961

„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)

„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)