Marquis de Sade Quotes

Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad.

To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and there's sex as pastime.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

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.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

I just want some head in a comfortable bed.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death for me. You are the center of my world and you always will be. When I tell you that your pleasure is mine, I mean that literally

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

Sex is a two-way treat.