LIST 57

11 Quotes About Sex

 

1

“If you're not going all the way, why go at all?”
–Joe Namath

2

“Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
–William Blake

3

“Erotic impulses are a never-ending source of ingenious, even wondrous constructions. Almost any object or body function can be eroticized.”
–Robert J. Stoller, M.D., sexologist and psychiatry professor at UCLA

4

“When a woman has tasted a dog, she will never want a man again.”
–court transcript of “an unnamed 19th-century English serving girl”

5

“Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”
–Remy de Gourmont

6

“Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.”
–Harlan Ellison

7

“The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.”
–George Bernard Shaw

8

“Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure, she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal”
–“Topper Harley” (Charlie Sheen) in Hot Shots!

9

“Marriage finds its natural fulfillment in adultery.”
–Simone de Beauvoir

10

“I also see sex in the joining windows, in the archways of doors, on the pattern a fence makes on the ground, in shadows. Who is to say those myriad of angles we see every day are not joined sexually?”
–Andrei Codrescu, The Repentance of Lorraine, 1973

11

“A sexual desire holds no interest for me unless it is accompanied by love, and for love I would leave everything.”
–Benjamin Péret, Surrealist poet