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"I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier."

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"When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child."

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"George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself."

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop."

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J. L. King Author
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"A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it."

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together."

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers."

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Jack Gould Journalist
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"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."

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Mara Wilson Actress
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"I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that."

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Kate Chopin Author
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"I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it."

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