quotations about sex
If doctors could prescribe sex, they would.
TRACEY COX
"8 health benefits of great sex", Net Doctor, September 4, 2017
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Comedians
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
WOODY ALLEN
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
The only way to emerge from the bleak quagmire of a moribund sex life is to listen to each other's needs.
ANDY HILL
"Your relationship is failing because you don't put out enough", Metro, September 9, 2017
Sex can keep you fit. Quickies of 20 minutes weekly mean 7,500 calories annually, that's as much as you consume jogging 120km. A sex session can burn about 200 calories. This is like running 15 minutes on a treadmill.
TRACEY COX
"8 health benefits of great sex", Net Doctor, September 4, 2017
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
APHRA BEHN
The Emperor of the Moon
The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.
HARRIET LERNER
"The Top 10 Reasons Women Re-Marry The Wrong Guys", Huffington Post, July 7, 2012
Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night.
KEVIN LEMAN
Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
Sometimes sex is beautiful. More often, it is fun; funny; dangerous; dull; lethal; exciting enough to wilt crabgrass, and, for far too many practitioners, a chore quite comparable to taking out the garbage.
PHIL MUSICK
Pittsburgh Places, Pittsburgh People
Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"Could I have been any more inept?", Salon, October 26, 1999
The older a man the more grotesque people find his couplings, like the spasms of a dying animal.
J. M. COETZEE
Waiting for the Barbarians
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin!
I ever followed natural inclination
Under the power of my constellation
And was unable to deny, in truth,
My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
According to the greater or lesser violence of your sensual passion, you have perhaps discerned some of those twenty-two pleasures which in other times created in Greece twenty-two kinds of courtesans, devoted especially to these delicate branches of the same art.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Familiar Territory
Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Blue Moon
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.
PHILIP ROTH
The Dying Animal
The only sea I saw
Was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it.
Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
DYLAN THOMAS
Under Milk Wood
I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it's the end of our species.
KEVIN BACON
"The Outsider Wants In", The Times, December 1, 2005
I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.
JAMES BALDWIN
If Beale Street Could Talk