"I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really."
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"What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster."
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"The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement."
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"Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful."
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"It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups."
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"Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex."
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"The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them."
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"Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all."
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"If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake"."
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"My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being."
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"I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well."
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"I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships."
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"In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other."
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"For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced."
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"For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder."
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"Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway."
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"It don't make no difference what is is, a woman'll buy anything she thinks a store is losin' money on."
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"The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined."
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"The sex is ever to a soldier kind."
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"Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting."
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