Sexuality Quotes

• There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

  Gore Vidal

  Practice, People, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1990). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Vintage

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• It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

  River Phoenix

  Phoenix, House, Strange

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Aquariums

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sex, Thinking, Littles

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Wells

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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• It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

  Marcus Allen

  Art, Sex, Meditation

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• Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Tears, Lotuses

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Essence, Seduction

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Spontaneous, Natural

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  Naomi Wolf

  Body Image, Relinquishing, Asks

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• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  Katherine Moennig

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Two

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• I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

  Goldie Hawn

  Femininity, Not Afraid

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• My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

  Dusty Springfield

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sexy, Fun, Different

  "Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Heart, Together

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

  Derek Jarman

  Men, Hopeless, Odd

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

  Russell Brand

  Dancing, Needs, Faces

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

  Marquis de Sade

  Inspiration, Law, Conflict

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• There's a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women, on the other hand, are rare and a real mystery. Hotness speaks to our impulses. Beauty speaks to our imagination.

  Zan Perrion

  Beautiful, Girl, Real

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• At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Pornography, Disappearance

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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

  Susan Sontag

  Fear, Disease, Register

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