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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
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"Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Sex

"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Sex

"What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!"

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"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."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Sex

"And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth."

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Georges Bernanos Novelist, Essayist
Sex

"Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape."

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Mario Video Game Character
Sex

"We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Sex

"We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness."

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