How To Think More About Sex (School of Life)
Killing our desire out of fear keeps us hungry, irritable, and rooted in shallow soil. We may feel a sense of security, of staying in society’s good graces, but we don’t experience aliveness. We don’t get nourishment, we don’t get hydration. We don’t get great sex, great art, or great poetry. “Great” can only come through when we stop setting our c
... See moreNicole Daedone • Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm
Sex can teach us to relish the tumult of true equality. It can show us that the self need not remain imprisoned behind the eyes. And it can prove, if anything can at this late date, that there is a realm beyond rational exchange, a realm in which the profligacy of play is its own recompense.
Becca Rothfeld • All Things Are Too Small
But when lovers get confused about what their masculine or feminine essences truly desire, or they fall into the habit of chasing physical satisfaction, a subtle but chronic form of malnourishment begins to grow. After a few months or years, it becomes a chasm.
John Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
Sex is weird and disgusting and ridiculous and quite often abused and weaponized and traumatic. But I like it. I like what it can be and sometimes what it is. Sometimes I think it might hold the secrets to almost everything. ... Sometimes it’s just nice to hold someone while they cum, kissing their earlobe and whispering to them yes .