#sex

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police. ↗

Unwed white girls who became pregnant in the postwar years were considered psychologically disturbed but treatable, whereas their black counterparts were presumed to be biologically hypersexual and deviant. Historian Rickie Solinger demonstrates that in the 1950s an unwed white girl who became pregnant could go to a maternity home before her pregnancy showed, deliver the baby and give it up for adoption, and return home to her community with no one the wiser. (White parents concocted stories of their daughters being given the opportunity to study for a semester with relatives.) She could then resume the role of the "nice" girl. Unwed pregnant black girls, on the other hand, were barred from maternity homes; they were threatened with jail or termination of welfare; and they were accused of using their sexuality in order to be eligible for larger welfare checks. Politicians regarded unwed pregnant black girls as a societal problem, declaring--as they continue to declare today--that they did not want taxpayers to support black illegitimate babies, and sought to control black female sexuality through sterilization legislation. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#double-standard #history #politics #racism #segregation

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. ↗

— Mae West

#sex #humor

Lanith? Don’t bewitch the Church boys. Their disappointment is a mess to untangle when they follow you home. ↗

— Lita Burke

#fantasy #sex-appeal #women #home

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#art

[T]here 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, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#home

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant ↗

— Henry Miller

#sex #humor

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#humor #naughty #sex #virginity #humor

No. Don't distract me with your sexy talk. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#archer-cross #hex-hall #humor #rachel-hawkins #sexy

She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm... ↗