Hugh Hefner Quotes

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

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

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

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

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me that sex is the most awful and filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.

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

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.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

Our culture needs a sexual ethic focused on personal relationships and social justice rather than particular sexual acts

I do not see God as an old man, sitting in the clouds, and watching my genitals.

I was raised to believe that sex was shameful, that you should only have sex when you're married. I'm so glad that I didn't listen to that advice.

It's high time subjects like sex, and everything that it includes, are normalised.