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“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”

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This novel delves into the lives of soldiers during a time of conflict, offering a glimpse into their struggles and sacrifices. more

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Marge Piercy

Marge Piercy is an American poet born on March 31, 1936. Her poetry extensively covers social and political issues, known for her profound social consciousness and feminist perspective. more

“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?”

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Author:Murray Banks

“Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.”

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Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action

“A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."”

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Author:Honor Tracy

“Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.”

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Book:The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

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