Sexual Norms Quotes

It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

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

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

When I was a kid at 16, sneaking into a burlesque theater in downtown Detroit was a big thrill. Today, in every hotel room in America, you can turn on the television and see hardcore pornography. So the shifts can go both ways, and it's incumbent on us as leaders of the spiritual community to get as many people as possible to really begin to think in God-realized ways.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

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.

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

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

Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it.

We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.

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

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.