“My message is, is that although some of you didn't agree with the actions we took, now let's work together to rebuild Iraq, rebuild Afghanistan, fight AIDS and hunger, deal with slavery, like sex slavery, and deal with proliferation. Let's work together on big issues.” BigsActionTogetherFightingSexDealsIssuesMessagesAgreeSlaveryHungerIraqAidsWorking TogetherAfghanistanProliferation Author:George W. Bush
“Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.” FeelsChildrenStillsMatterFacesGirlThreeSexTalkingBoysIssuesAbuseIndiaUncomfortableFiftyChild AbuseCentsHomosexualityCarpetHypocriteBoy And Girl Author:Rahul Bose
“The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.” PeopleSexIssues Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.” BigsCoursesSexDealsIssuesTensionStraightforwardPrimatesCompatibilityForaging Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.” WantNeedsBelieveLooksImportantBookCharacterUseSexCasesIssuesHonestYouthArmsDrugHappeningsAdultsAbuseAcknowledgeImportant IssuesDrug UseSex Abuse Author:Ellen Hopkins
“We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.” MadeStillsSelfUseSexFeltFictionIssuesInvolvedHealthyBallsMagazinesReviewsDeclaring Author:Barney Rosset
“The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.” ReligionPoliticsSexIssuesSensitiveTrilogies Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.” PeopleFeelingsSexIssuesImportanceSexualityAvoidingDisrespect Author:Sallie Tisdale
“My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.” ShouldBelievePlayCharacterAbleJobsChoicesActorsSexViewsActingRolesIssuesClearColourSurgeryTransgenderEthnicity Author:Stephen Fry
“If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.” IfsAgeSexRaceIssuesSeriousPoliceDriversOfficersTicketsTrafficOffensePolice Officer Author:Bill Dedman
“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.” ThinkingEndsAgeSocialSexLevelsIssuesEffectsHigherMajorsFemaleMalesDecreaseHormonesPubertyTestosterone Author:James McBride
“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.” KnowsTryingHas BeensTwoSelfTodayAmericaFacesChoicesGirlSexEnjoyTermIssuesDangerLateMajorsConcernRelationMalesSexualityIntimateFearfulAdolescenceDefiningSexually Author:Mary Pipher
“I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsBelieveI CanTwoSexDifficultPleasurePracticeIssuesDon't BelieveBelieverManageThemeLinksBelieve In GodParts Of LifeBaptizedFacing Death Author:Pedro Almodovar
“At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.” BelieveTodayCertainJesusSexReligiousMoralIssuesFourPositionBuddhismFolksNobleAbortionDivinityBedroomHomosexuality Author:Stephen Prothero
“We need to be very careful when considering whether or not to change the constitution to accept same-sex marriage as this issue touches on the fundamentals of how we live.” NeedsSexChangeAcceptingIssuesConstitutionFundamentalsCarefulConsidering Author:Shinzo Abe
“Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.” LooksWholeYoungSexProcessSinTalkingIssuesMoralityConceptsAgreeDeclineYoung And Old Author:Johnny Carson
“And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.” WorldNeedsGirlSpeakSocialSexCompassionPovertyMillionsIssuesBabyCrisisConvictionDesperateAbortionMassiveSelflessDegradationOrphanSelfless Love Author:David Platt
“Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.” PeopleWorldHas BeensCultureSexTalkingIssuesRationalOppressionSpeaking Out Author:Neil Tennant
“Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.” DoeSexIssuesBasesConstitutionDiscriminationSex Discrimination Author:Antonin Scalia
“Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.” YearsChildrenHas BeensMatterDoneLastsSexParentDifferencesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesResearchOppositesResponsibleRaisedStableWhat MattersChildren And Parents Author:Mary Cheney