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“We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.”

Feelings Sex Sides Emotional Separation

Author:Natalie Portman

“The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.”

Values Sex Century Movement Acceptance Birth Morality Majors Separation Immoral Nineteenth Century Reproduction Birth Control

Book:The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America

Source: The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America

“A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.”

Has Beens Moments Remember Sex Parent Born Loneliness Taught Anxiety Jokes Roots Opposites Forgotten Separation Attachment Dread Recalls Infant Toilets Abandonment Taught Us

Author:Jo Coudert

“The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.”

Culture Sex Emotion Civilization Foundation Western Separation Western Culture

Author:Shulamith Firestone

“An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.”

Ideas Sex Wall Built Equality Separation Dust

Book:The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

Source: The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké

“We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.”

Feelings Together Sex Sides Emotion Media Emotional Separation

Author:Natalie Portman

“I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.”