#sex

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries. ↗

— Darrel Ray

#religion #sexual-abuse #religion

The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church. ↗

— Darrel Ray

#religion #sexual-abuse #religion

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#always #been #control #felt #i

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#comedy #dumb #hair #red #red hair

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#being #casually #everything #feelings #human

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

#certain #certainly #children #could #impulses

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ↗

— Hans Kung

#being #color #dignity #distinction #every

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#few #had #high #high school #i

I was very sexual from a very young age. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#i #sexual #very #young #young age

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out. ↗

— Eric Jerome Dickey

#sex #life