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.

 Aphorisms on Sexuality

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 • (Though, truth be told, the very same blithe irony actually applies no less, regarding the glorified semi-abstinence of condom use, not surprisingly far more successful under laboratory conditions than in the field, due much to the same or similar obvious inevitable and intractable threshold of frustration and temptation, drunk, stoned or cold sober.)  • 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 • I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t 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  No, dummy, not a delivery system at all, but an alienating filter frequently hijacked via intimidation and micromanaged by third party self-serving self appointed gatekeepers.]   (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 Neighbour’s Wife,' Pan, 1980, p. 389 • ’Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness [in movie ratings]?  — Sally Struthers 

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