I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H. L. Mencken

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
Germaine Greer

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
Germaine Greer

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Susan Sontag

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan Sontag

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Casey Stengel

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Emma Goldman

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore Vidal