Sexual Attitudes Quotes

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"

We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

Men and women who are sexually repressed regard sex as dirty …

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.

I still believe that sex is dirty. It's just that now I wouldn't have it any other way.

When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.

I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.