Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! ~George Bernard Shaw

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. ~Henry Louis Mencken

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live. ~Erica Jong, Playboy Magazine, September 1975

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. ~Bertrand Russell

“Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents.......to breed out of the race the scourges of transmissible disease, mental defect, poverty, lawlessness, crime … since these classes would be decreasing in number instead of breeding like weeds....such a plan would … reduce the birthrate among the diseased, the sickly, the poverty stricken and anti-social classes, elements unable to provide for themselves, and the burden of which we are all forced to carry”
“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises”
“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.”
“We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
"Eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state. We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world.
We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother."
American Baby Code states, "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood".
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." ~Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood


“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
Barbara Bush quotes (American first lady (1989-93), the wife of George Bush, b.1925)


“The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.”
Brendan Behan quotes

“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)

"Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite." (Germaine Greer)

"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be." (Norman Mailer)

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." (Jane Austen, 1775-1817)

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain

"If there was going to be a sexual revolution, I would be its pamphleteer." Hugh Hefner

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition." Alex Comfort

"Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." Samuel Johnson

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." Henry Kissinger

"Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions." Aldous Huxley

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

... as women become free, economic, social factors, so becomes possible the full social combination of individuals in collective industry. With such freedom, such independence, such wider union, becomes possible also a union between man and woman such as the world has long dreamed of in vain.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), U.S. author, editor, feminist, and social reformer. Women and Economics, ch. 7 (1898).

"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." –-President Jimmy Carter

"Dan would rather play golf than have sex any day." --Marilyn Quayle, on Vice President Dan Quayle

"I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." --President Bill Clinton

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
JAMES BOSWELL
Scottish lawyer and biographer
(1740 - 1795)

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
- Francis Bacon

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual domination obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
- Kate Millett
American writer, sculptor and educator
(1934 - )

At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest.
Susie Bright (1958- )

"We teach our young people what to do in the front seat, but we need to start teaching them what to do in the back seat," she said at Meharry Medical College yesterday as part of a program sponsored by the Urban League Young Professionals of Middle Tennessee. "The vows of abstinence break far more easily than a condom."
"Masturbation has never given anyone a disease," Elders said. "And you know you're having sex with someone you love."
"AIDS is a very nondiscriminatory disease. There's no cure and no vaccine. The only thing we have is education,"
"We know that more than 70-80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."
"As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else."
-- Jocelyn Elders