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

Quote for February 3rd, 2012

"Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity." -Mignon McLaughlin

Quote for February 2nd, 2012

"I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on this planet to please men, that they have to fake, and they never worry about their own pleasure."-Jenna Jameson, pr.com interview, May 17, 2007

Quote for February 1st, 2012

"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." -Oscar Wilde

Quote for January 31st, 2012

The way you make love
is the way God will be with you.
-Rumi, The Book of Love

Quote for January 30th, 2012

"Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles." -Gao Xingjian, Weekend Quartet

Quote for January 29th, 2012

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." -Billy Crystal (1947 - )

Quote for January 28th, 2012

"Desperate is not a sexual preference." -Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 01-08-09

Quote for January 27th, 2012

"It's one thing to shoot a man, quite another to cast aspersions upon his lovemaking skills." -Teresa Medioros, The Vampire Who Loved Me

Quote for January 26th, 2012

"I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways."  -Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious

Quote for January 25th, 2012

S"ex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex."  -Val (Woody Allen) Hollywood Ending

Quote for January 24th, 2012

"If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this ... these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one's beloved." -Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

Quote for January 23rd, 2012

"Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of." -D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Quote for January 22nd, 2012

"So sweet and delicious do I become,

when I am in bed with a man

who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,

that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,

so the knot of love, however tight

it seemed before, is tied tighter still."

-Veronica Franco, Poems and Selected Letters