#sex

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep. ↗

— Herculine Barbin

#humanity #intersex #lgbt #queerness #soul

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#civilization #our #sex #sex appeal

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#connection #happiness #inspiration #love #religion

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#sex-appeal #beauty

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#bed #done #like #often #privately

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image. ↗

— David Bowie

#astounded #i #i think #image #jagger

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly