“Glamour is just sex that got civilized.”

— Dorothy Lamour

From the book What Women Want, what every man needs to know about, sex, romance, pleasure and passion page 180, the lover she wants.http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=syR2Y2eMkKQC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=glamour+is+just+sex+that+got+civilized&source=web&ots=Zyz5rmcKGh&sig=Zob1STyBmS8vQFUwgTKIc8rf3Ww&hl=en

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Dorothy Lamour1

American actress and singer 1914–1996

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.4

“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.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40

“Madonna won my undying loyalty by reviving and re-creating the hard glamour of the studio-era Hollywood movie queens, figures of mythological grandeur. Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. Woman’s sexual glamour has bewitched and destroyed men since Delilah and Helen of Troy.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 10

“Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.”

Henri Bergson book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Toute notre civilisation est aphrodisiaque
Source: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter IV

“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The values of Western civilization are not just different, they're better. I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism, that all civilizations are just different. No, not always. Sometimes things are better. Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy. Equality of the sexes, better. Protection of minorities, better. Free speech, better.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Free elections, better.
Victory Begins at Home (20 January 2004)

“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.