#sensual

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#making-love #pleasure #respect #sensuality #sex

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can! ↗

— Jody Watley

#beauty #black #celebrated #change #culture

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. ↗

— Ann Landers

#brilliance #comet #fleeting #happy #happy marriage

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place. ↗

— Michael Mann

#beautiful place #great #miami #physically #place

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. ↗

— James McGreevey

#affair #another #another man #consensual #engaged

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #birth #homo #homo sapiens #i

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#degree #homo #homo sapiens #i #i think

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #extent #fairly #sensual #species

Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. ↗

— Mocco Wollert

#lovers #loving-words #of-loving #relationships #sensuality