Dossie Easton Quotes

#1. If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.

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#2. It felt so wonderful that she concluded that the existence of her clitoris was proof positive that God loved her.

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#3. One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

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#4. It seems to me that faithfulness has very little to do with who you have sex with." Faithfulness is about honoring your commitments and respecting your friends and lovers, about caring for their well-being as well as your own. If

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#5. When penetration is desired, the focus is on what works for the recipient: we have yet to meet a dildo that got hung up on its own needs.

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#6. Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child.

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#7. Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

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#8. Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

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#9. Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.

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#10. The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.

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#11. The real test of love is when a person - including you - can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

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#12. The most successful long-term relationships are the ones with enough flexibility to redefine themselves over and over again through the years.

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#13. We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

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#14. A good fight starts with the understanding that in order for a fight to be successful, both people have to win.

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#15. Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

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#16. Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.

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#17. Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
( ... ) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

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#18. Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.

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#19. One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

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#20. GREAT SLUTS are made, not born.

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