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"Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd."
"It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive."
"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
"For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy."
"Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'"
"Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting."
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
"As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced."
"Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to."
"I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat."
"Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults."
"When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God."
"No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band."
"I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter."
"Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with."
"I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness."
"When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism."
"Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation."
