#sexuality

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

When asked why I don't believe in God I reply, quite simply, "vaginas". ↗

— Robert Clark

#humour #religion #women #religion

I was worried about sex," he went on. "But you know what, Sulie? It's like being told I can't have any caviar for the next couple years. I don't even like caviar. And when you come right down to it, I don't want sex right now. I supposed you punched that into the computer? 'Cut down sex drive, increase euphoria'? Anyway, it finally penetrated my little brain that I was just making trouble for myself, worrying about whether I could get along without something I really didn't want. It's a reflection of what I think other people think I should want. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#science-fiction #sex #science

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle. ↗

— Henry Miller

#sexuality #miracles

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#lies #lying #oral-sex #sex #sexuality

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. ↗

— Ivan E. Coyote

#gay #gender-bending #gender-spectrum #labels #lesbian

Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #sexuality #family

I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#design

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world. ↗

— E.M. Foster

#maurice-novel #dreams

I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything is drowsy as two sailors go up the trail with fishing poles and a dog between them to go make love quietly in the hills: the captain and everybody know they're queer and rather than being infuriated however they're all drowsily enchanted by such gentle love... (p. 119) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#love #lovebia #u-s-navy #dreams