Quotes About Promiscuity

#1. Of course we know that sexual promiscuity increases the likelihood of STIs, which is why we explore sexuality through romance - it's safer (and you don't have to shave your legs).

Maya Rodale

#2. The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

Gloria Feldt

#3. A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

Julian Clary

#4. Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. Her hot attire did not signify promiscuity - contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers - but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal

Aleksandar Hemon

#6. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Anna Lyndsey

#8. If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them too much effort.

Gena Showalter

#9. I think,' said Raja Rao, 'unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism.

BS Murthy

#10. They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

Ray Davies

#11. The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

Rick Springfield

#12. I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

Gore Vidal

#13. I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.

Rachael Taylor

#14. The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Ruth Ozeki

#15. His former promiscuity is finally coming in handy,

Jeaniene Frost

#16. Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Camille Paglia

#17. People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

Elayne Boosler

#18. [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Molly Haskell

#19. Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Carrie Fisher

#21. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.

Kate Madison

#22. I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important ...

Ayn Rand

#23. Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.

Mason Cooley

#24. As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment.

Margaret Atwood

#25. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

Phyllis Schlafly

#26. Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

Jean Baudrillard

#27. Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

Mark Hoppus

#28. I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.

Mary Roach

#29. (Paris, keeper of Promiscuity, enjoyed romance novels), and weird silver lamps that twisted and curved over the chairs; he had no idea who those were for. Fresh flowers bloomed from vases, sweetly scenting the air. Again, he had no idea. Fine. He'd requested those. That shit smelled good. Gideon

Gena Showalter

#30. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.

Sheree' Griffin

#31. Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Mailer

#32. Promiscuity is the death of love.

Edna O'Brien

#33. The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

David Hare

#34. I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.

Joan Didion

#35. Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. ... Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Hanif Kureishi

#36. We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

Gene Roddenberry

#37. There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.

Betty Jane Wylie

#38. Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.

John Peter Nettl

#39. The gay movement is an evil institution that's goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.

Scott Lively

#40. Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

Ani DiFranco

#41. Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.

Bell Hooks

#42. Weng lies in a hollow, buried among blocks of ice for millions of years. The roadsides favor promiscuity.

Thomas Bernhard

#43. Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Mason Cooley

#44. Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Mignon McLaughlin

#45. I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

Adrianne Ambrose

#46. So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that keep us so healthy?

Wallace Stegner

#47. Riley made a simple but telling observation about both feminist and nonfeminist rape deniers. "They are all talking about sex and promiscuity," she said. But, she observed, "Rape is not about sex at all.

Jody Raphael

#48. And rich older husbands," I said. "And perhaps some evidence of promiscuity," Susan said. "I mean, every young wife doesn't cheat on her husband. Why

Robert B. Parker

#49. Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Andrew Sullivan

#50. A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

C.D. Darlington

#51. Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

Milan Kundera

#52. I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

Dorothy Stratten

#53. Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#54. Philanderers and swingers can see nothing beyond the needs of their genitals. Sexual craving is a part of our biology, but it is not who we are.

Abhijit Naskar

#55. A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women ... fast.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#56. There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#57. It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious ... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs.

C. JoyBell C.

#58. Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.

Habeeb Akande

#59. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Christine De Pizan

#60. I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

Dusty Springfield

#61. I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.

William Inge

#62. Oh, I know that she's disgusted,
cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust,
but it's so hard to refuse.

Elvis Costello

#63. And honesty is the hardest part
yeah honesty is the highest art
and honestly i myself just started
and eureka i'm less broken-hearted

Ani DiFranco

#64. When I was 14-15
There was nothing to my life
but dancing and sex
I'd go to night clubs and dance
Then I'd meet someone and have sex
it was Fine and easy
nothing to do
BUT Think with my body
like a bird
I Thought I was Free
TrAcey Emin

Tracey Emin