John Dos Passos Quotes

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

They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

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

It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. Americans can be so prude sometimes.

The politics of prudery and the prudery of politics, have a long history.

The era we live in we see child are more advanced then us. And that is why they need knowledge even on sex before they involve themselves in crime because of curiosity to know about sex.

Parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children.

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

Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.

It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.

I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.

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

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.

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

Regarding sex education: no secrets!