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Love, Romance and
You Know What!
Women and Sex
In
real life women are always trying to mix something
up with sex -- religion or babies or hard cash; it is
only men who long for sex separated out, without
rings or strings.
Katharine Whitehorn - Man's Ideal Woman
Only
through each woman's discovery of 'her own interior
wavelength' -- her exploration of what it is that she
herself, separate from her programming, thinks is
erotic -- can an integrated self, which is a possible
and honourable goal, be approached.
Robin Morgan
American
women are suffering, quite simply, a massive
sickness of sex without self. No one has warned
them that sex can never be a substitute for personal
identity; that sex itself cannot give identity to a woman,
any more than to a man; that there may be no sexual
fulfilment at all for the woman who seeks her self in sex.
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique 1963
Their
lives centre around their vaginas:
what goes in and what comes out.
Erica Abeel - Park Bench Mothers
Convolute
cranny, hair and air, ambrosial
chalice where seed can cling.
John Updike - Couples
… that wonderful rare space in you.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Phallic Poems
It
is like a purple flower of crimson, full of honey and
perfume. It is like a hydra of the sea, living and soft,
open at night. It is the humid grotto, the shelter always
warm, the Asylum where man rests on his march
toward death.
Pierre Louys - Aphrodite
On
this soft anvil all mankind was made.
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Sodom
Real
satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves
but in the sexual involvement of the whole person.…
Women must hold out not just for orgasm but for ecstasy.
Germaine Greer
It
is this aspect of a woman that has heat. Not a heat
as in "Let's have sex, baby, baby." But like a
fire underground that burns high then low, in cycles.
From the energy released there, a woman acts as
she sees fit. A woman's heat is not a state of sexual
arousal but a state of intense sensory awareness
that includes, but is not limited to, her sexuality.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
He
thinks because I'm flat on my back he's got me but
I've got him: caught, clenched as if I had my teeth in him.
Maureen Duffy
A
young man who grows up expecting to dominate
sexually is bound to be somewhat startled by a
young woman who wants sex as much as he does,
and multi-orgasmic sex at that.
Nora Ephron
What
is sex? According to the women who love it, it includes
all of our senses, and it also includes how we think
and put information together, how we feel about what
is happening and what it all means to us. If a partner
is involved, it includes how we respond to our partner's
sensations, thoughts, emotions, and meanings.
Moreover, our sexual relationships occur in time, a
time present that includes both time past and time
future-memories and dreams, terrors, anxieties,
hopes, anticipations.
Gina Ogden - Women Who Love Sex
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