Sexuality Quotes

“Augustine declared that sexual intercourse in paradise would have taken the form of ‘a gentle falling asleep in the partner’s arms’ had Adam and Eve not fallen prey to carnal desire, and that ‘lustful sex is the enemy of God’. In contrast to the classical age, for Augustine sex was not produced by the heating of the body, but by ‘concupiscence’ – sinful desire.”
― Véronique Mottier, Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction

“Right now, forcible physical rape stands as an overwhelming metaphor for what has been the rape – physical, emotional and spiritual – of an entire gender by our culture.”
― Véronique Mottier, Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction