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“I thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong. The rules, they were already inside us.”

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“The idea of sex work weighs heavily upon our collective moral conscience, in particular because most sex workers are women. The idea that women can choose to have sex for a living unsettles many people's notions about how women should behave, and these include people who have the power to decide how cities, and by extension societies, are structured.”

Sex Women Pornography

Book:Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography

Source: Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography

“Good made human beings poor and needy; He even inscribed humility in the human flesh when he created male and female, that is, incomplete creatures. He made them, from the very beginning, two beings, moving in search of one another, each one "unsatisfied" with only himself or herself. God has positioned human beings on a plane that inclines upward, not downward, so that union between man and woman should move them beyond the other sex upward to the supreme Other, God Himself.”

Spirituality Sex Marriage Gender

Book:Sober Intoxication of the Spirit: Filled With the Fullness of God

Source: Sober Intoxication of the Spirit: Filled With the Fullness of God

“I had an eviction notice and a handgun, but I didn’t make any connection between them. Then I read about the invisible hand of the market, and it totally made sense. I wasn’t getting enough work as a musician, and I wasn’t getting hired at different jobs I applied for, so it was time to diversify.”

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Book:One for My Baby

Source: One for My Baby

“Flesh involves in the forced sex but soul involves in the mutual sex”

Sex Sexual Abuse Sexual Assault Sexual Violence Sexual Intercourse

Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When pressed, hunters who claim that they just want “to be out in the wilderness,” will admit that the kill is essential—or at least the hope of a kill. As it turns out, there is no correlation between hunting and hiking, climbing, backpacking, kayaking, or any other outdoor activity. Hunters do not purposefully linger in the woods after a kill, but quickly begin the process of preparing to head home with the corpse. For hunters, the kill is the climax—the most important moment. They are not driving into the woods (or sometimes actually walking) for the sake of beauty, but in the hope of a kill. The kill can be likened to male orgasm. Sex is traditionally thought to be over when the man has an orgasm, and the hunt is never so decisively over as it is after a successful kill. As a teacher, I impatiently listened to a young man matter-of-factly defend the importance of hunting because he found the experience “orgasmic.” From his point of view, all that mattered was how exciting and wonderful the experience was for him. The “side affects” of the man’s preferred action—the experience of the deer (and the woman)—are deemed to be so irrelevant that they are not even mentioned.”

Sex Killing Sexism Hunting Hunters Orgasm Climax Male Privilege

Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“Never regard sex as big deal. See it as that little, fascinating empire which all persons, big and small, rich and poor, stoop low to conquer.”

Sex

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“In a threesome, there are always two exhibitionists and a voyeur.”

Sex Threesomes

Book:Sexographies

Source: Sexographies

“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I became aware of workers having gender issues. Many years later I discovered that sex hormones were affected by high altitude exposures.”

Sex Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude Affected Mauna Kea Tmt Hormones

Author:Steven Magee

“I can’t be certain that Frank and I would have felt the same depth of love and tenderness for each other, had sex ever been part of our story. Sex is so often a cheat, a short cut of intimacy, a way to skip over knowing somebody’s heart by knowing instead their mere body. So we were devoted to each other in our own way.”

Love Sex Intimacy Tenderness

Book:City of Girls

Source: City of Girls

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