W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.

Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

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

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

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.

... some of the best sex I can barely remember.

Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.

I kept saying, "Stop me now. It's going to my head." I got some photos. Really, I did! It's not my noblest sexual self in these moments, but I want to have fun. I want to undress. I get off my leash to go out and perform. Some other writers are just discomforted by the way I behave in public. Because they're loath to perform.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.

Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.

Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.

Sex is the greatest driving force on this planet. Christ, why are we living if we can't have a little fun? Sex is giving, and the more you give, the better lover you are.

I love food and I love sex.