“I read in a "high-class" review of Miss Rebecca West's book on St. Augustine, the astounding statement that the Catholic Church regards sex as having the nature of sin. How marriage can be a sacrament if sex is a sin, or why it is the Catholics who are in favour of birth and their foes in favour of birth-control, I will leave to the critic to worry out for himself. (chapter 4)”
Source: Saint Thomas Aquinas
“Both Angela and Pamela were blissfully unaware of the door being opened, and Robynne watched the couple’s embrace in silence.”
Source: Robynne: Her sexperiences and sexventures
“The Buddha compared attachment to drinking salt water from an ocean. The more we drink, the thirstier we get. Likewise, when our mind is conditioned by attachment, however much we have, we never really experience contentment. We lose the ability to distinguish between the bare experience of happiness and whatever objects temporarily make us happy. As a result, we not only become dependent on the object, but we also reinforce the neuronal patterns that condition us to rely on an external source to give us happiness.”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“Max saw Lilly and James in ‘Momentum delictum flagrante maximum’ . Lilly’s legs were splayed apart with her feet pointing to the ceiling.”
Source: Maximus: His sexperiences and sexventures
“We want to have an exclusive estrogen quadringling shindig.”
Source: Maximus: His sexperiences and sexventures
“...should a man fancy a woman, … they may use any of a million “Pick-up” lines to start a conversation. The worst is that …. if they are successful, they boast about their sexual prowess. That is not what you should ever do. You are better than that!!”
Source: Maximus: His sexperiences and sexventures
“it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.”
Source: Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, And Imperialism
“I'm happy being a bloke, I think, but sometimes I'm not happy being a bloke in the late-twentieth century. Sometimes I'd rather be my dad. He never had to worry about delivering the goods, because he never knew that there were any goods to deliver; he never had to worry about how he ranked in my mother's all-time hot one hundred, because he was first and last on the list. Wouldn't it be great if you could talk about this sort of thing with your father?
One day, maybe, I'll try. "Dad, did you ever have to worry about the female orgasm in either it's clitoral or its (possibly mythical) vaginal form? Do you, in fact, know what the female organism is? What about the G-spot? What did 'good in bed' mean in the 1955, if it meant anything at all? When was oral sex imported to Britain? Do you envy me my sex life, or does it all look like terribly hard work to you?”
Source: High Fidelity
“Je veux saigner pour toi, mais tu es si grand et j'ai si peur.”
Source: Batter My Heart
“When she had a mind to, she took him by the arm in the middle of the night and kissed him hard. I love you, damn it. She never actually said it, but he always felt that from her: frustrated and coarse and hot. That was the way she loved him.”
Source: Children of Promise