#sexual

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#libraries #reading #sexuality #virginity #innocence

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state." "Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we? ↗

— Stephen Fry

#sexuality #cheating

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bad #erica #girl #good #jong

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness. ↗

— Tori Amos

#darkness #fear #homosexuality #issue #own

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#afraid #after #because #developing #got

I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#good #how #i #look #never

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#find #i #intelligible #interest #liking

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#always #been #day #i #open

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#boy #consider #disease #does #everybody

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#always #ethics #first #only #principle