These
themed
and collected pithy proverbs offer a glimpse of the multifarious destinations
arrived at by way of such a basic drive, herein sequenced so as to run the gamut
from Philosophy
and Biology, among the
impersonal
values
of
Science Fiction, to social commentary which was once the deeper purpose of 'Star
Trek' and the Sociological questions that are the domain of
Soft Science Fiction, to the
Psychology of relationships and the deeper
motivation that is essential to
drama
including the differing assumptions and cross purposes giving rise to to
conflict on every
level.
Some things are better than
sex, some things are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it. W. C. Fields
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink. He didn't die, but became vice.
Nietzsche
Sex is everything Sigmund Freud Sex is hardly ever just about sex
Shirley MacLaine The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with
prayer. Marcus Aurelius
Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any. 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 Arthur Baldwin A country without bordellos
is like a house without bathrooms. Marlene Dietrich Why are chaperones more
respectable than rapists? Aaron Agassi
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question.
Yes is the answer. Howard Hoffman
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis
Sex alleviates
tension. Love causes it.
& Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
& Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty
gestures go, it is one of the best.
('Love and Death') Woody Allen
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to
do it? Bette Midler If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all
of a deep complicity. James Dickey -A subversive collusion, if any good,
according to George Orwell... Sex is full of lies. The body tries to
tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound
with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim
Morrison Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. Walter Prager
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. David Cronenberg
When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually
something wrong with her sexual organs. Friedrich Nietzsche There is no
female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female
liver.
Charlotte Gilman
Thoughts have no sex.
Clare Booth Luce
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. Friedrich
Nietzsche Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon Bonaparte The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.
Camille Paglia Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
Andrea Dworkin If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce R. Kennedy ...no more
controversial
than emergency appendectomies. Barbara Ehrenreich Of all the sexual
aberrations,
chastity
is the strangest. Anatole France Oh Lord give me
chastity, but do not give it yet. St Augustine Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy - every time it's tried. Rush Limbaugh
AIDS
awareness is not a
guilt trip, and shame on anyone who says it is!
Aaron Agassi
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Norman Mailer Ive never turned over a fig leaf yet that didnt have a
price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less. Brendan Francis.
A woman's place is in the wrong
James Thurber When women go wrong, men go right after them. &
When I'm good I'm very, very good but when I'm bad I'm better. Mae West
There's no shortage of pussy- it's just the delivery system that's messed up. Dr. Roy V. Schenk
(I Can't
Get No)
Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones
Sex is what women have and men want. A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows. Monica
Piper There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women
want different things. Men want women and women want men. George Burns Men
mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love. Peter Wastholm
The clinging and the distant will always find one
another Aaron
Agassi
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing
with the enemy. Henry Kissinger True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Jason Jordan
No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. Nora Ephron
Platonic friendship: The interval between the introduction and the first kiss.
Sophie Irene Loeb
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages: first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend. Anton Chekhov,
'Uncle Vanya'
A woman will do anything for a man she once loved except love him again. Oscar Wilde
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't. John Erskine
I'd rather a woman eagerly punctual than reluctantly exclusive. Punctuality
cannot be feigned! Aaron Agassi A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. Elbert Hubbard
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all
she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. Angela Carter
A nymphomaniac is a women as obsessed with sex as the average man. Mignon McLaughlin A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. Joan Rivers
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention
of getting married.
Matt Barry You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. Dorothy Parker You're only as old as the woman you feel. Groucho Marx I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.
If you ever had sex with a machine, that's what it's like with me. 'Cause I'm like a sex machine. Butt-head
If you ever leave me, take the mongoose with
you.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. Gloria Leonard
It'll be a sad day for sexual liberation when the pornography addict has to settle for the real thing. Brendan Francis
A dirty mind is a joy forever.
Oscar Wilde
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century
it was a disease; in
the twentieth, it's a cure. Thomas Szasz ...sex with
someone I love.
Woody Allen Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a
satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot
of imagination to
make it work. Karl Kraus
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. Dorothy Parker
Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened
with children. Sam Austin It's
better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have
to tell
your mother. Charles Pierce One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs. Malcolm
Bradbury When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are
your friends having sex yet?' Sharon Stone
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. Matt Groening,
'Life In Hell' citation from
'Basic Sex Facts For Today's Youngfolk'.
Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime.
Describing it is. Gershon Legman, quoted by Gay
Talese in 'Thy
Neighbours
Wife,' Pan, 1980, p. 389 Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness [in movie ratings]?
Sally Struthers
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