Quotes about sex
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“You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Love, Feeling

“It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Life, Food

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Heart of the Sea

Love, Food, Coffee

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Marriage

“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Chasing Fire

Beer

“I should like friendship with you… and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Friendship

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

David Markson (1927–2010) American writer

Learning, Reading

“Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he
was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off.
Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

“Money, power, sex… and elephants.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Memory

Money

“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”

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

Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

Love, Question, Waiting

“Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Religion

“Everybody lies about sex.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love

“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

Life, Animals

“It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

“It's a party house."
"I hope for your sake it's a very tame party." If he brought me to some sort of sex orgy, he would fly right through one of those pretty windows, headfirst.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Hope, Housing, Flying

“I'm not a. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.”

Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

As quoted without citation in Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology And Evolution (2006) by Peter J. Mayhew, p. 24
Attributed

Personality

“The best sex takes place in the mind first”

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

Source: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Revenge

“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

Suffering, Perfection

“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.”

Douglas Coupland book Miss Wyoming

Source: Miss Wyoming

World, Religion, Failure, Learning

“I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Time

“I see. Is Jim with you now?”
“Yes, he is. We’re having rough sex. You’re interrupting.
“What are you doing here?”
“Looking for Jim in your bed.”
“He isn’t here.”
“I see that.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook (2000)

Love, Life, Happiness, Truth

“Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Time

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

People, Way, Thinking

“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”

Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three to Get Deadly

“Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html

People

“If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Variant: If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese.
Source: Dark Lover

Food

“Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

“Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

“Love is not necessary for sex.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

Love

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Mourns

Thinking

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Love

“my grandmother has given me her own version of the precious gift: the most precious gift any teenager coul ask for:
MY GRANDMOTHER HAS GIVEN MY MY OWN SEX PLACE!!!!!”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

“Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.”

Nelson DeMille book Wild Fire

Source: Wild Fire

Women, Men

“Using your feminine wiles to lead my familiar astray. If all you want is dangerous sex, I can give that to you better than he can, and I won't break your heart afterward." - Al to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Heart

“Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

Baby

“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”

Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet

Pleasure, Lovers

“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

Thinking

“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

Smile

“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising

“Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.”

Zadie Smith book NW

Source: NW

“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006

Life

“Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Thinking

“Hold up. How do youhave sex with somebody?” Adina scoffed. “Is she all, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I didn’t see your penis there’?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.
-Calvin”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

Girl

“Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

“… some of the best sex I can barely remember.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

“No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: For Keeps

World, Teachers

“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 (1894–1961) American writer

Thinking

“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

Way

“Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.

"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Christmas

“Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Thinking

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”

Susan Sontag book Styles of Radical Will

Source: Styles of Radical Will

Religion

“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xvii.
Context: Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:

“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls