Feb
9
Quotable: Selling Sex
February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “In advertising, sex sells. But only if you’re selling sex.”
— Jef I. Richards, author and educator.
Feb
8
Quotable: Sex Will Not Shut Up
February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Sex is not a frill; it’s not a luxury. It’s part of your life whether you’re flush or famished, living under dictators or Democrats. It has its own unique relationship to history and it will not shut up.”
— Susie Bright (b. 1958), author and activist.
Feb
7
Quotable: Subterranean Impetus
February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “There’s a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half-sex that one finds in advertisements.”
— Norman Mailer (1923-2007), author.
Feb
6
Quotable: Being Gay
February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn’t.”
— Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), icon.
Feb
4
Quotable: Spit on It
February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I watch so much porn, when I eat a banana, I spit on it.”
— Alec Mapa (b. 1965), comedian.
Feb
3
Quotable: Passion and Cleverness
February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), author and aphorist.
Feb
2
Quotable: Primary Sexual Activity
February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.”
— Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), psychiatrist.
Feb
1
Quotable: Promiscuous
February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “A promiscuous person is usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.”
- Victor Lownes (b. 1928), former Playboy Enterprises executive.
Jan
31
Quotable: Let Lust Be My Ruin
January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.”
— Hart Crane (1899-1932), poet.
Jan
30
Quotable: Dirty Sex
January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.”
— John Waters (b. 1946), filmmaker.
Jan
28
Quotable: Notorious
January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “A pinch of notoriety will do.”
— Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), writer and wit.
Jan
27
Quotable: The New Pornography
January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “It’s just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.”
— Woody Allen (b. 1935), filmmaker.
Jan
26
Quotable: Writing About Sex
January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.”
— Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), author and critic.
Jan
25
Quotable: The Complexity of Manhood
January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.”
— James Baldwin (1924-1987), writer and civil rights activist
Jan
24
Quotable: Glory Hole
January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “If God hates fags, then why is it called a ‘glory hole’?”
— Public restroom graffito.
Jan
23
Quotable: A Clear Complexion
January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I need sex for a clear complexion but I’d rather do it for love.”
— Joan Crawford (1905-1977), icon.
Jan
21
Quotable: As Wide as the Sea
January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.”
— Derek Jarman (1942-1994), activist and filmmaker.
Jan
20
Quotable: Safe Sex
January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”
— Norman Mailer (1923-2007), author.
Jan
19
Quotable: Strange Paths
January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.”
— Carl Jung (1875-1961), Austrian author and satirist.
Jan
18
Quotable: The Whole Chicken
January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken.”
— Author unknown.
