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Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BCElectric 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 · 1937Whatever 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 · 1791Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter · 1928A lot depends on who's in the saddle. — Vivian Rutledge · 1946All 40 quotes →Casual sex2 quotes
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 · 1973They 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 · 1901Chastity2 quotes
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley · 1936Love2 quotes
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BCLove's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1784Abstinence1 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 · 1975Art1 quote
The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse. — Claes OldenburgBaseball1 quote
Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. — Annie Savoy · 1988Commitment (relationships)1 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 · 1901Complexities of love1 quote
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1784Coping mechanisms1 quote
I spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart. — Fleabag · 2019Dangers of love1 quote
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life. — Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1784Desire1 quote
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BCEffects of old age1 quote
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? — William Shakespeare · 1597Falling in love1 quote
Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter · 1928Food1 quote
Food and sex. Those are my two passions. — George Costanza · 1997Freudian psychology1 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 · 1991Gender relations1 quote
Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. — Harry Burns · 1989Greed1 quote
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. — William Osler · 1904Impotence1 quote
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? — William Shakespeare · 1597Modern life1 quote
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment. — Malcolm Muggeridge · 1966Money and sex1 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 · 1961Nature of love1 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 · 1978Nature of men1 quote
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. — William Osler · 1904Poverty1 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 · 1961Pursuing women1 quote
Fuck a lot of women, kid. I have no reason to lie to you. Not one woman, a lotta women. — Edwin Hoover · 2006Religion1 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 · 1973Self-control1 quote
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398Sexual morality1 quote
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398Virginity1 quote
I was on top! Who the fuck is on top their first time! — Lady Bird · 2017