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Sex (63)
A man’s way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the .ghting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child. - Edgar Rice Burroughs, APrincessof Mars (1917)
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986)
I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself: the grati.cation is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. It is true, we shall be monsters, cut o. from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,or, TheModernPrometheus (1818)
Lasten could hear people’s minds. Not their thoughts, for people don’t have thoughts inside; Lasten heard emotions and mind-pictures, whatever was strongest in the consciousness of those around him. Red hate, boiling and exploding; sometimes pure fear, blue-white, rigid; sex fantasies that echoed disturbingly in Lasten’s own mind. - Terry Carr, ‘‘Ozymandias’’ (1972)
The worst thing about sex is that we use it to hurt each other. It ought never to hurt; it should bring happiness, or at least, pleasure. - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Sex, whatever else it is- much else!- is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. - Robert A. Heinlein, IWillFearNoEvil(1970)
Sex is either for making babies or making careers; not for fun. - Ben Bova, ‘‘Zero Gee’’ (1972)
[On sex in space:] They were in their own world now, their private cosmos, .oating freely and softly in the darkness. Touching, drifting, coupling, searching the new seas and continents, they explored their world. - Ben Bova, ‘‘Zero Gee’’ (1972)
Sex is a comforting aggravation. - Susanna Jacobson, ‘‘Notes from Magdalen More’’ (1973)
Sex is a better tranquilizer than any of those drugs and much better for your metabolism. I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex; it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. - Robert A. Heinlein, Friday (1982)
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