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“Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness.”

Book:Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

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Randolph M. Nesse

Randolph M. Nesse is a renowned American author born in 1948. His works primarily focus on biology, evolution, and human behavior, having a profound impact on the scientific community. more

“We tend to focus overly on the externals: a certain sort of room, particular kinds of clothes, a certain level of hormones... But the most important ingredient in encouraging us to take off our clothes and present ourselves without inhibition or fear is - in the end - trust. Trust that a partner has our best interests at heart, that we aren't ever going to be mocked, that there is loyalty and long-term concern at play, that we are with someone who can be delicate with our feelings. Sex itself may be rough and powerful; the feelings behind sex must be anything but”

Sex Attraction Chemistry

Book:How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

“If I didn't have anywhere more pressing to be, I would have offered her my number and the use of my backseat. Chances were good that she would have accepted at least one.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“You want to play innocent? That the kind of person who spends their lives projecting their voice into a lamb or lizard isn't into some kinky shit when the lights go out?”

Sex Innocent Kinky Ventriloquism Ventriloquist

Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“Ventriloquism is not a physically demanding hobby. High school athletes tended to spend their weekends fingering something other than a dummy's eyes”

Sex Ventriloquism Athletes Ventriloquist

Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“Love is not fungible; I would not take a substitution if I were in love." "Then you don't remember being in love... The best way to get over one person is to get under another.”

Love Sex Substitution Fungible

Book:The Lifecycle of Suns

Source: The Lifecycle of Suns

“I’m not here to promote sex. I’m here to promote a power greater than others can imagine.”

Sex Sensuality Sensual Divine Feminine

Author:Lebo Grand

“The advantage of sex is that it cannot occur without a high degree of vulnerability on both sides. The physical act requires an almost unavoidable degree of physical and emotional intimacy - which explains why sex can be so difficult between two people who lack trust or are nursing tensions and resentments.”

Sex Vulnerable

Book:How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

Source: How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

“I longed to be the subject of a school-shaking romance, but relationships in which personality was not involved were valueless to me. What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.”

Sex Schools

Book:The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant

“People often ask if it is difficult to be a celibate monk or nun, but to practice mindfulness as a monastic is in many ways easier than to practice as a layperson. To refrain from sexual activity altogether is much easier than to have a healthy sexual relationship.”

Sex Celibacy

Book:Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

Source: Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“If you want to give up a habit, first give up the habit of resisting change, which blocks your way to growing. Welcome, the change when it is necessary. Accept it when it is natural or inevitable. By doing so probabilities of your finding happiness become higher.”

Happiness Change Habit

Author:Ravi Ranjan Goswami

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