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Anais Nin2 quotes
Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. — Anais Nin · 1937Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. — Anais Nin · 1941Aldous Huxley1 quote
Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley · 1936Alfred Kinsey1 quote
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Alfred Kinsey · 1966Andy Warhol1 quote
The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. — Andy Warhol · 1975Annie Savoy1 quote
Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. — Annie Savoy · 1988Bob Wiley1 quote
So, the psychiatrist has a patient, draws a circle, what do you think of when you see this? He says, sex. That's not the joke, wait a second. He draws a picture of a tree, what do you think of when you see it? Sex. He draws a picture of a car, house, sex, sex, sex. The doctor says, you know, you're obsessed with sex. The patient says, well you're the one drawing all the dirty pictures! — Bob Wiley · 1991Carole1 quote
Take me to bed, or lose me forever. — Carole · 1986Claes Oldenburg1 quote
The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse. — Claes OldenburgCole Porter1 quote
Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter · 1928Edwin Hoover1 quote
Fuck a lot of women, kid. I have no reason to lie to you. Not one woman, a lotta women. — Edwin Hoover · 2006Erica Jong1 quote
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. — Erica Jong · 1973Fleabag1 quote
I spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart. — Fleabag · 2019G.K. Chesterton1 quote
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—"free-love"—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901George Costanza1 quote
Food and sex. Those are my two passions. — George Costanza · 1997Giacomo Casanova1 quote
Whatever St. Augustine may say, human creatures would not perform the work of generation if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them. — Giacomo Casanova · 1791Harry Burns1 quote
Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. — Harry Burns · 1989Henry Fairlie1 quote
Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive. — Henry Fairlie · 1978James Baldwin1 quote
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. — James Baldwin · 1961Jessamyn West1 quote
Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another. — Jessamyn West · 1973John Gustafson1 quote
Alright, we did the horizontal mambo! — John Gustafson · 1993John Milton1 quote
What hath night to do with sleep? — John Milton · 1634Lady Bird1 quote
I was on top! Who the fuck is on top their first time! — Lady Bird · 2017Lord Chesterfield1 quote
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. — Lord Chesterfield · 1773Lt. Frank Drebin1 quote
By the way...I faked every orgasm! — Lt. Frank Drebin · 1988Malcolm Lowry1 quote
How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying. — Malcolm Lowry · 1947Malcolm Muggeridge1 quote
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment. — Malcolm Muggeridge · 1966Paul Gauguin1 quote
Whom one gets into bed with is no light matter. — Paul GauguinPlutarch1 quote
When the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch · 100Ron Slater1 quote
Imagine how many people out there right now are fuckin’ man...just goin’ at it. — Ron Slater · 1993