I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms; from the faded flowers they turn away.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

It is no mere accident (as Orwell knew) that the standardization of sexual life, either through controlled license or compelled puritanism, should accompany totalitarian politics.

Do you wanna see something swell?

What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?