
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
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“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
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:
“You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”
Dottie in Ch. 2
The Group (1963)
“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”