Quotes About Sexual Relationships

#1. Jacqs' attempts at initiating sexual relationships usually involved either money or abject failure.

Lyn Gala

#2. I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.

Catherine Millet

#3. Sexual relationships are about creating a personal level of cohesiveness.

Asa Don Brown

#4. Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Plato

#5. We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

Camille Paglia

#6. Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

Mary McCarthy

#7. The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

Chester Brown

#8. Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

Janet Bode

#9. There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Susan Shaw

#10. It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.

Miya Yamanouchi

#12. If women were totally satisfied with their sexual and lovemaking experiences, women would welcome the lovemaking experience as much as men.

J.F. Kelly

#13. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Dean Spade

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

Habeeb Akande

#15. In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.

Nenia Campbell

#16. We would not want the joy of physical and sexual intimacy to fade after years together. We need to also remember to keep our intellectual and emotional intimacy every bit as sacred.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#17. For crying out loud, absurd things can happen, none of us is spared." He reached out and gave her a soft pat on the back. "So screw it, lovey. Enjoy every second you've got and stop moping around." - Intomesee

Maha Erwin

#18. Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

Judith Lewis Herman

#19. The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

Volkmar Sigusch

#20. I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

Shirley Maclaine

#21. When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

Myles Munroe

#22. 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

#23. There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two of us sweaty and panting, me screaming, him grunting, our primal sexual natures overprinting the tea room's pretence at gentility, and refinement.

Fiona Thrust

#24. Ultimately, your every desire - the desire for material things, relationships, career success, sexual gratification - is really the desire for the peace you experience for brief moments when you attain the object of your desire.

Stephan Bodian

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

Dossie Easton

#26. Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes you find someone and you want to stay with him (or her) - because you're the same kind of animal.

C. JoyBell C.

#27. Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#28. If it was possible for two people to make sparks, simply by connecting at their lips, I would think we would have been a firework display in the dark.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#29. Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

Hadley Freeman

#30. I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts of bestiality or child sexual abuse.

Emily Yoffe

#31. You turn me on from across the room, and I'll completely melt if you come any closer.

Crystal Woods

#32. I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.

Jon Krakauer

#33. Sexual power encompasses the power of seduction and the power of pursuit.

Elona Washington

#34. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#35. 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

#36. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.

Maha Erwin

#37. People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other.

Tristan Taormino

#38. Safe sex is an act of self love.

Miya Yamanouchi

#39. Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

Mackenzie Davis

#40. I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#41. I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.

Christopher Rice

#42. I am not looking for a "perfect" man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.

Amanda Mosher

#43. Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.

Volkmar Sigusch

#44. Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#45. Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode
a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

Christos Yannaras

#46. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

#47. For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Judith Viorst

#48. Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#49. Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

W. H. Auden

#50. Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

John Piper

#51. I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.

Maureen Brady

#52. The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#53. Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

Francis Schaeffer

#54. I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.

Alicia Keys

#55. In sexual relations, a connection between solar plexus chakras indicates shared power in the relationship.

Brownell Landrum