Michel Foucault Quotes

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

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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

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

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

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should

There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.

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.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

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.

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

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.

I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.