Sexuality Quotes - Page 26

• I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

  Mika

  "Why won't Mika give a straight answer?" by Richard Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2007.

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.

  Jennifer Beals

  Jobs, Sleep, Thinking

  Chatelaine Interview, www.chatelaine.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

  Troy Perry

  Jesus, Sins Not, Died

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.

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• Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Generosity, Receiving

  "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen", 1966.

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• Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Class

  "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

  Camille Paglia

  Mind, Veneer, Shows

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

  Hugh Hefner

  Women, Two Sides, Temptation

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• Mr Hughes's current claim of "bisexuality" has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.

  Mark Steyn

  Gay, Past, World

  "Sorry, But Voters Prefer Straight Choices". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 31, 2006.

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• Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dream, Style, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 77-78), 1964.

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• On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Female, Levels

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

  Gloria Feldt

  Sex, Motivation, Men

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• Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?

  Christina Aguilera

  Scrutiny, Please, Millions

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• I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That's a very limited view of human sexuality, and it isn't going to work for women.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Thinking, Views

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• If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone.

  Connor Franta

  Struggle, Helping, Process

  "'The Thing About the Internet Is We Take Everything Too Far': Youtube Star Connor Franta Opens Up". Interview with Tess Barker, www.mtv.com. May 5, 2015.

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• C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.

  Prince

  Thinking, Race, Talking

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• Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...

  Alan Keyes

  Sex, Thinking, Order

  Alan Keyes' National Federation of Republican Assemblies Speech, www.keyesarchives.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Personality, Loved Ones

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• I can't relate to Mansfield or Monroe. The only one I can relate to is Bardot. First of all, there's a certain physical similarity between us. Second of all, she was very strong--she didn't have that affected sexuality.

  Pia Zadora

  Strong, Firsts, Certain

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• What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Tyranny, Humans

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mean, Headache, Homosexual

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• albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Eye, Hair, Vices

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• The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

  Adrienne Rich

  Limbs, Adolescence

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

  Rita Mae Brown

  White, Chapel, Has Beens

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 15 May.

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• If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Fighting, Self, Trying

  Source: www.salon.com

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