“Tame it though we may try, sex has a recurring tendency to wreak havoc across our lives: It leads us to destroy our relationships, threatens our productivity, and compels us to stay up too late in nightclubs talking to people whom we don’t like but whose exposed midriffs we nevertheless strongly wis…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Of course, when I’m dating someone, I want them to value me for my ideas and accomplishments and humor or whatever. But when I’m fucking someone, I want them to value my lack of a gag reflex.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“I have this friend—she’s a polyamorous molecular biologist who’s into extreme BDSM (obviously). Recently, she told me that she regularly masturbates to the idea of men having sex with animals. Despite being generally prepared to hear something extreme come out of her mouth, I was still pretty shocke…”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“I once had a guy tell me that he doesn’t go down on women because he’s a germaphobe. Are you kidding me? How am I supposed to relax and feel good about myself after you basically called my vagina dirty? It’s so much more of a turn-on to be with someone who’s kind of gross—someone who wants to smell…”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“I don’t think we need to file all of our actions under ‘feminist’ or ‘not feminist’—especially since consensual sex kind of exists in a political vacuum: It’s pretty much the one place that we can just do things and move on, no angry think-piece needed.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“Have sex a few times and you quickly learn: The person you’re banging is just another human, like you.”— Kate Sloan, theestablishment.co
“That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Orgasms are like the price of heels at Balenciaga. If you have to ask, get the fuck out.”— Sarah Nicole Prickett, thoughtcatalog.com