“Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.” WayFeelsBodyGirlShameCatholicSexualityDietsCrush Author:Rachel Cusk
“The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.” LovePerspectiveInvolvedExpectationsShameSexualityEnormousDegrade Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.” PeopleThinkingWorldIdeasRealWholeMovingHateIssuesGayShameSexualityWhole LifeLive ByGhettoOrientation Author:Neil Tennant
“Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.” WantFeelsPersonsAgeYoungCoursesClearProudApproachShameSexualityLoudYoung AgeIntegrated Author:Lena Dunham
“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."” PeopleThinkingKindMeanDifferentEnoughSilenceGrowing UpMissingIgnoranceShameGuiltSilentSexualityAll KindsStereotypeSecrecy Author:Esther Perel
“Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.” PeopleThinkingTryingPowerfulShameSexualityHello Author:Tatiana Maslany
“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.” HumansSeemsMightTodayProcessSinCenturyAcceptanceStrangeCallingShameSexualityHuman LifeHistorianScholarAssociatesCultPaganismPaganFertilityConceivingClassifying Book:When God Was A Woman Source: When God Was A Woman
“In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract that, to show gay men being happy and positive about who they were. Oh, I didn't sit down to think this all out carefully. But I knew - right from the start - that my men were going to be proud and happy men!” ThinkingMenFeelsMadeShowsFeelingsWantedProudGayShameSexualityDrawingBe ProudGay MenHappy Man Author:Tom of Finland
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.” KnowsMenHumansLongWholeFacesSexHonestyIgnoranceProveIntellectualDignityShameMedicineCurrentsSexualityPunishmentConfusionDenialHypocrisyDisplayExploitationSecrecyIndulgenceHuman DignitySuppressionSophisticationStimulationBewilderedDuplicityDespondentIntellectual HonestyHistory Of Medicine Author:Alfred Kinsey
“Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. But an organization like the church, say, through its doctrine, would undermine humanity by successfully teaching shame about sexual orientation - that it is sinful, or that it offends God. The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.” HumansSongHumanitySexNaturalChurchTeachingOrganizationShameSexualityDoctrineOrientationActs Of Love Author:Hozier