“I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.” MadeDesireStuffMorningCreativeGet UpMaking MoneyEvery MorningCreative WorkSexual Desire Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.” MenDesireObjectsVulnerabilityConfessionMatchedConfessingSexual Desire Author:Warren Farrell
“An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.” KnowsWayReasonDesireIndividualStrongForcePsychologyCoupleUltimatePressureIntelligentIndependentUrgesPillsProcreationRationaleSexual Desire Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.” YearsKindDesireSexAbilityHalfMillionsMankindActivityFemaleMalesOrgansSplitsLackingSexual DesireReproducing Book:Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution Source: Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution
“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.” IfsKnowsFeelsI CanRealDesireWaterWonderImagineCrimeDrivingCommitExpertsStrongestAppetiteThirstSexual Desire Author:Dervla Murphy
“In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.” TryingMindRealMightDesireLove IsReturnLoversMadnessGenuineElsewhereGoddessPrescriptionsVenusGazingIllusorySexual DesireFonts Author:Paul Ludwig Landsberg