Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability…nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
Dossie Eastman and Katherine Liszt (The Ethical Slut)
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Posted in Love, Lust on Mar 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Love is a matter of chemistry; Sex is a matter of physics.
Unknown
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Posted in Lust, Romance, hmmm... on Mar 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
A kiss is a procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
Unknown
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Posted in Funny, Lust, hmmm... on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.
Woody Allen
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For all the fuss we make about sex — the oral, the penetrative, the games — if the kiss isn’t there, it’s hard to find real satisfaction in the rest of it.
Smut and Steff
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Posted in Lust, Sex Work, hmmm... on Feb 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Pretty much everyone I ever meet tries to fuck me. I don’t know if it’s because they think I’m attractive, or they want to tell their friends they’ve fucked “The World’s Most Famous Porn Star.”
Jenna Jameson
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them.
Carl Jung
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Posted in Literature, Love, Lust on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
‘Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust’s effect is tempest after sun;
Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
William Shakespeare (Venus and Adonis)
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Countess: Tell me the reason why wilt thou marry.
Clown: My poor body, madam, requires it; I am driven on
by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil drives.
Shakespeare (in All’s Well that Ends Well)
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, ”How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?” to which he replied, ”Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a […]
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