Sexuality Quotes - Page 37

• In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychological, Found, Femininity

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sexist, Scholarly, Inclination

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

  Chris Colfer

  Giving Up, Suffering, Dresses

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• I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.

  Adam Levine

  Brother, Gay, Ideas

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• The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through the decades, and the general incessant objectification is what this conversation allegedly about my face is really about.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Objectification, Faces

  "Adele Nose Job Story Shouldn't Be in Headlines?" by Brittney R. Villalva, www.christianpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Party, Years

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• All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

  Darrel Ray

  Sex, Scientific Knowledge

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• When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.

  Judith Plaskow

  Together, Connections, Spirituality

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry based upon such images viable, would require the reconstruction of women's sexuality into a ruling-class sexuality. In an egalitarian society objectification would not exist and therefore the particular buzz provided by pornography, the excitement of eroticised dominance for the ruling class, would be unimaginable.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sexy, Men, Class

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Crush, Art, Real

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

  Frans de Waal

  Caring, Empathy, Intellectual

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman's devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman's tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy.

  David Deida

  Running, Moving, Men

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Sex, Ordinary, Negative

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• My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

  Alice Bag

  Needs, Morality, Traits

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• Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Running, Spiritual, Self

  Lewis B. Smedes (1976). “Sex for Christians: the limits and liberties of sexual living”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

  Esther Perel

  Fall, Doe, Assuming

  FaceBook post by Esther Perel from Mar 14, 2013

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• We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, New Relationship, Motherhood

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Class, Ideas

  Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press

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• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  Alexander Lowen

  Sex, Physicians, Way

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• We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sex, Boys, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

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• Be warmed in your heart in the midst of your sexuality. Your response to your own sexuality is that you are warmly in it, not exploiting it, not moving away from it, that you are completely present in it, warmed.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Midst

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• Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn’t there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Self, Movement

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• 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.

  Hozier

  Song, Sex, Teaching

  "Q&A: Irish Musician Hozier on Gay Rights, Sexuality, & Good Hair". Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, www.thecut.com. March 11, 2014.

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• I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  Alexander McQueen

  Thinking, Clothes, Romance

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• Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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