Mary Roach Quotes

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it.

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

The more I think about sex, the better it gets!

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually stimulated... Kind of makes you feel a little like a superhero.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.