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General Quotes on Sex and Sexuality

By Cory Silverberg, About.com

Updated: August 04, 2008

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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.
~Michel Foucault

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
~Andy Warhol

When people are fed and clothed, then they think about sex.
~K’ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
~Swami X

Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~Quentin Crisp

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
~Woody Allen

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
~Groucho Marx

Sex is emotion in motion.
~Mae West

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
~Woody Allen

Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
~Woody Allen

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
~Gore Vidal

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.
~Cary Grant

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
~Henry Miller

I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.
~Leslie Nielsen

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
~Isabel Allende

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
~Dorothy Parker

Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.
~Ronald Reagan

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
~Gore Vidal

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
~Hunter S. Thompson

Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.
~Dave Letterman

Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
~Woody Allen

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
~James A. Baldwin

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
~Gore Vidal

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  6. Jon Winokur. The Portable Curmudgeon, Plume Books, 1992.

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