Dave Barry Quotes

You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

According to the producers of gripping podcast 'Death, Sex & Money', these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more.

I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.

With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.

I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

Sexuality in girls isn't explored as much as it should be. Everyone gets freaked out - it's quite a taboo thing for girls to wanna have sex

I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox.

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

Better laid than never.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.