Quotes
A special section containing thought provoking and witty comments on sex and sexuality. Enjoy!
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
~Janis Joplin (1943-1970), American singer/songwriter
“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”
~Spke Milligan
“It’s not the wand; it’s the magician.”
~Kim Martyn, All the Way: Sex for the First Time
“There’s a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born, and it’s a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.”
~Hazel Scott
“I don’t want people to remember me for my underpants.”
~ Marky Mark
“We expect our first slow dance or kiss to be delicious, so why not expect the same from our first time having sex with someone?”
~Kim Martyn, All the Way: Sex for the First Time
“We need to acknowledge that the so-called norm of premarital chastity has never applied to the majority of young people. It is time to call for ethical sexual relationships that regardless of the age, marital status, or sexual orientation of the participants, are concensual, non-exploitive, honest, mutually pleasurable, and protected against sexually transimtted disease and unintended pregnancies.”
~Debra Haffner, Former President SIECUS
(Haffner, D. (1998). Just Say No? Conscience, a news journal of pro-choice Catholic opinion.)
“Sex in France is a comedy, in England is a tragedy, in America is a melodrama, in Germany is philosophy, in Italy an opera.”
~ Anonymous
“The myth that only women with big breasts are desirable to men is just a lie. I just can’t imagine why women would feel that way. I’ve never felt less desirable because I have small breasts.”
~Erika, twenty-six
“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.”
~Elizabeth Taylor