Pepper Schwartz Quotes

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

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

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.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.

Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. But an organization like the church, say, through its doctrine, would undermine humanity by successfully teaching shame about sexual orientation - that it is sinful, or that it offends God. The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.