Gloria Steinem Quotes About Sexuality

Quotes about: Sexuality

• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

• Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Communication, Caring

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

• In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Littles, Imbalance

• The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Acceptance, Ideas

• Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Confused, Choices

• The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fun, Men, Ideas

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

• Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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