quotations about sex
I felt an angel's possessing grip, the flames
rising from your skin,
the shadow of the divine.
EDWARD HIRSCH
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O Magazine, February 2007
Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.
ZANE
Dear G. Spot
Because they like their own church, and the relationships within it, or because they love Jesus, or because they have a nostalgic affection for it, many people will go on giving the church their loyalty and commitment, while simply disregarding parts of its teaching they don't agree with. Sexuality is one huge area of church doctrine in which this is clearly the case. The traditional position on sexual intercourse is that it is not permissible in any circumstance except that of heterosexual monogamous lifelong marriage. But most Christians are not virgins when they marry. Many Christians divorce. Some Christians are practising homosexuals. Some live together outside of marriage. And though there is still a consensus in secular as well as church circles that adultery is a bad thing, a betrayal of relationship, it is the deceit and faithlessness that is seen as the sin, not the actual sex. In the Catholic church, teaching on contraception is disregarded by the majority. In no other area of church life is the gap between theory and practice so wide.
KATHY GALLOWAY
introduction, Dreaming of Eden
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER
attributed, The Illustrated Dictionary of Snark
The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
PHYLLIS DILLER
attributed, "Phyllis Diller's Best One-Liners", CBS News, August 21, 2012
The best that he had ever managed in bed, so far, had been the maximum of relief with the minimum of hostility.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
LOUIS ARAGON
The Adventures of Telemachus