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Famous and Infamous Sex Quotes

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Updated January 08, 2009

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General Sex Quotes

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.
~David Lodge

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
~Lord Chesterfield

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
~Quentin Crisp

It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that counts. It's the quality. On the other hand if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.
~Woody Allen

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Sex Researcher Quotes

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not get been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a women want?
~Sigmund Freud

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
~Alfred Kinsey

A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race. A woman only needs to be available.
~Masters and Johnson

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
~Alex comfort


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Sex and Pornography Quotes

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
~Gloria Leonard

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

If looking at porn makes you kill people, then Joe Matt should be the biggest serial killer ever. Bundy may have believed that porn made him a murderer, but the experience of millions of peaceful non-murdering porn-consumers around the world proves him wrong.
~Chester Brown

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

~Susan Sontag
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Sex and Masturbation Quotes

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
~Truman Capote

If God had intended us not to masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter.
~George Carlin

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
~Karl Marx

Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love.
~Woody Allen

Sex & Religion Quotes

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

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
~John Waters


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Selected Sources:

  1. BrainyQuote.com
  2. The Quote Garden
  3. Thinkexist.com
  4. The Quote Cache
  5. All Great Quotes
  6. Jon Winokur. The Portable Curmudgeon, Plume Books, 1992.

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