“When a woman begins making love with a new man, a creature is born in her - of emotional and sexual responses that grows in its own laws, its own logic.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Under natural selection, species adapt to their environments. When the environment refers to a species' physical habitat, this seems simple enough. If a species lives in the Arctic, it had better evolve some warm fur. Under sexual selection, species adapt too, but they adapt to themselves. Females adapt to males, and males adapt to females. Sexual preferences adapt to the sexual ornaments avaliable, and sexual ornaments adapt to sexual preferences.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Each trait that we consider sexually attractive already summarizes a huge amount of information about an individual's genes, body, and mind.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Consumerism turns the tables on ancestral patterns of human courtship. It makes courtship a commodity that can be bought and sold.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“There is plenty of evidence from evolutionary psychology that men and women have physical, emotional and mental adaptations for short-term liaisons and adulterous affairs.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else.”
Source: Animals Eat Each Other
“While sex may be represented today as little more than a recreational activity, sexuality is presented as that which lies at the very heart of what it means to be an authentic person.”
“There's an honesty and simplicity to Santa. He'd go down your chimney, but only with enthusiastic consent.”
Source: Precious Catastrophe
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were
but little happy if I could say how much.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Dreams and fantasies cannot begin to compare to the heat and strength of a man’s body against your flesh, of his mouth on yours, his chest hair tickling and scratching, his stubble scraping your upper lip and chin as you kiss and the way you can feel his muscles rippling and shifting as he begins his conquest to possess you.”
Source: Captured