Promiscuity Quotes

• Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image.

  Will Smith

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Sex, Philosophy

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.460, Penguin

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• Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Identity, May

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Revenge

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, BookBaby

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• Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Past

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• To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world
  The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

  Tim Robbins

  Finding The One, Finding Love, World

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• I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Beautiful, Sex, Believe

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• Promiscuity is the death of love.

  Edna O'Brien

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• Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

  Countee Cullen

  Heart, Giving, Lovers

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.179, Library of America

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• They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Class, Mediocrity

  Song: Did Ya

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• A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.

  Victor Lownes

  Witty, Sex, Persons

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• It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Girl, Baby, Cancer

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• Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

  Norman Mailer

  Emotional, Sentimental, Sentiments

  Cannibals and Christians (1966) p. 51

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• Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

  E. W. Howe

  Enemy, No Friends, Care

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• The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

  Jon Shenk

  Hurt, Real, Men

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• Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Sex, Wrestling

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• I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

  Dusty Springfield

  Promiscuous

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• New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

  Moliere

  Love, Desire, Seduction

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• Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Boredom, Causes, Results

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.26, BookBaby

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• Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Feels, Stills, Subjects

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

  Moliere

  Love, Heart, Other Worlds

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• The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

  David Hare

  Mystery, Adaptation, Fidelity

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• Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  Mark Hoppus

  Umpires, Advocating, Yeah

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• My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Sex, Lying, Aunt

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.

  Kate Madison

  Recovery, Reflection, Addiction

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