#sexual

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#christianity #church-of-england #heresy #religion #religion-and-sexuality

An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,” the capacity to “surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibition…free of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies”; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at least would not be blocked or diverted by destructive or irrational emotion or by exaggerated respect for institutions that were not life-enhancing. ↗

— Gay Talese

#respect

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege. ↗

— Susan Shaw

#sexuality #contemporary

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ↗

— Woody Allen

#chances #date #doubles #immediately #night

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#celebration #companionship #enough #eroticism #just

Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#ages #ahead #alter #assaulted #between

There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ashamed #continue #good #honor #learn

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#breakdown #certainly #edge #gay #i

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#challenges #could #gay #gay marriage #heterosexual

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually