Quote for February 10th, 2012

"We settle for so-so sex because most of us don't know how sexual we could be; we know only how sexual we are. How sexual we are has been shaped by decades of indoctrination by ... family and friends, teachers, religious leaders, and romantic partners, not to mention a society that worships a bewildering fusion of childlike sexual innocence and cynical, nihilistic hedonism.... So what is normal? It all depends on what's normal for you." -Anita H. Clayton, Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy

Quote for February 9th, 2012

"Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality -- because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives." -Hugh Hefner, NPR interview, Sep. 6, 2003

Quote for February 8th, 2012

"Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier." -Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon

Quote for February 7th, 2012

"Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
All the governments, judges, gods."
-Walt Whitman, A Woman Waits for Me

Quote for February 6th, 2012

"If sex is supposed to be satisfying and anxiety-free once we are safely ensconced in marriage, how come that's when many of us stop wanting it?" -David Morris Schnarch, Passionate Marriage

Quote for February 5th, 2012

"We made love. How pedestrian the words look--trite, worn, practically featureless with use--but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? that creation? that magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow ... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky ... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light ... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers." -Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion

Quote for February 4th, 2012

"Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils the show." -David Cort