Sex Power Money Quotes

“I am sorry for men because our culture tells them to introduce themselves to women who in the vast, vast majority don’t want to meet them.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Why are boys’ feelings a girl’s responsibility? This is treating the male response as unavoidable: the problem is schoolgirls’ hemlines.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“For every Cinderella story telling little girls they are to be beautiful and helpless and rescued by a man, there is a Cinderella story telling little boys they are supposed to be rich and strong and rescuers.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“If a female student says no to an offer of sex or visiting a stranger’s apartment, it’s not automatically a reflection of low libido, but an assessment of danger. Males are bigger and stronger than females; in scientific terms, humans have a body-size dimorphism of around 1.1 in the male’s favour. This isn’t accidental, it’s the result of male competition. In species where males compete for females the strongest are more likely to win and share their big genes with the next generation. This worldwide physical advantage has historically been used to justify the superiority of men, justify why they should be respected and obeyed, and paid more in virtually all vocations.* But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“We have to be careful with language because it creates the world.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Even though it's only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don't know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you - and blamed if we don't.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“I think all human beings should be free to use their body however they want … unless that involves buying sexual access to another person. Then I think they should have a wank and shut up.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“a study where women rated the attractiveness of pictures of men. They found that if they put a man next to an expensive car he was judged more handsome.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“there was a recent experiment where men on stag dos were separated from the group and asked about their night. The majority of men individually said they weren’t enjoying themselves but were doing it for the others!”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Women who have chosen to pay their mortgage by being looked at are suddenly being told that how they feed themselves and their kids isn’t appropriate any more. It is ‘at odds’. It is not believed ‘appropriate’.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“I have money now, I never have to speak to anyone I don’t want to, and I love it. What money has bought me is freedom, and I never forget it.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“It never occurred to me that it might take bravery to speak to a stranger, to risk rejection. That the offer of a drink was a socially acceptable way of saying, ‘May I enter your life? Might we have fun together?”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Kalinda made a fascinating point in her dissertation about the gender pay gap being easily bridged by how much more money men are willing to spend on sexy women than women are willing to spend on sexy men.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“I googled ‘monkey brothel’, had an existential crisis, and eventually found the details I wanted in a New Yorker article titled ‘Monkey Business’.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“If you would like some chat to ruin any party’s vibe, research dowry deaths and bride burning. Thousands of women are murdered every year because the father who ‘owns’ them does not pay enough to their new keeper.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“To be a woman is to occasionally feel, thanks to a few men, as if you are a shop – a department store with orifices on every level. It can feel like persecution. You’re trying to check a bus timetable or call your mum, while simultaneously advertising sex without meaning to.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Fear and arousal is not just a great band name, they predispose our deepest, most subconscious emotional needs.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“psychotherapist Richard Sipe discovered through probing interviews that of course they do. And yet again there was a sex difference. He reported that priests masturbated more than nuns.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“By masturbating every few days a man keeps his sperm fresh and energetic, vital for sperm competition. New studies also suggest that masturbating reduces the chances of getting prostate cancer and lowers stress, so it’s an all-round great way to spend your time.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“If sex was all about reproduction, how could so many individuals be aroused by a practice that works against them? Why has our species evolved so many sexual practices that are unconnected with the continuation of the species?”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“When looking for evolutionary explanations it can seem like we’re seeking to excuse behaviour, to justify it. But I do not think there is any excuse or justification. Evolutionary pressures are not a defence.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Beatings, invasions of privacy, restricting access to a phone, money and other freedoms – these are mate-guarding behaviours and in evolutionary terms can be linked to males’ lack of paternity certainty.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“When studies examining gender differences don’t reflect my experience I sigh to myself, ‘Must be a man then, what with my masculine reaction,’ rather than remembering that it’s only ever a small sample being extrapolated from.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“We’re descended from the watching-his-every-move, spreading-rumours-that-he’s-impotent, accusing-him-of-flirting-with-his-mum, jealous bitches.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“To be clear, 83 per cent of images in the porn image section of Usenet were pornographic. That means 17 per cent of the images in the porn groups were not pornographic, and I’m sorry, that is far more intriguing. What were they? Cats? Birthday cakes?”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“This sex difference in post-coital response – the male quick to relax and fall into slumber, while the female remains alert, perfectly able to have more sex (and more orgasms BY THE WAY) – is theorised to be down to multi-partnering in our evolution. At least it gives the female the option, whereas the male gets stimulated, orgasms and is spent.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Men get a dose of the hormone prolactin after orgasm and this acts as a sedative.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“Plus we’ve had female students missing school,’ the teacher added, ‘because they’re in hospital with anal injuries.’ Straight into the top ten Worst Sentences I’ve Ever Heard.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money

“This is adulthood,’ I thought. ‘Being grown-up means watching people get stoned and not crying when they put on videos of aggressive sex.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money