Amber Hollibaugh Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Fighting, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• We're targeted as LGBTQ people because we make people nervous around sex and we practice desire or have the possibility of practicing desire in magical and very, very profound ways. We shouldn't be giving up the possibility of articulating the claim of our body and the claim of our desire as something distinctive and erotically profound.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Sex, Giving Up, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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