Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anaïs Nin

“Man is what he believes.”

Anton Chekhov

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Pablo Picasso

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Flaubert

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

Roberto Bolaño

” Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be […]

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

‘I don’t think being monogamous is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn’t mean I don’t believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate.

Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don’t think it applies to everybody, and I don’t think a lot of people can do […]

The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Dean Spade

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Rimy de Gourmont