#virginity

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#humour #sex #virginity #experience

In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again. ↗

— Michelle Reid

#stupid-male #virgin-wife #virginity #love

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#eternity

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human mind #imagined #mind #superstitions

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#abstract art #art #been #concrete #exact

For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#feminism #purity-myth #virginity #america

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#peeps #scott-westerfeld #virginity #love

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us. ↗

— William Inge

#humor #love #promiscuity #sex #virginity

He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #virginity #workaholics #business