#promiscuity

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#promiscuity #sentiment #sentimentality #those #who

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #marriage #monogamy #promiscuity #life

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really. ↗

— Julian Clary

#day #door #gay #i #into

How many other people?" Alec asked. "Roughly." Magnus shook his head. "I can't count, and it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about you." "More than a hundred?" Alec asked. Magnus looked blank. "Two hundred?" "I can't believe we're having this conversation now," Magnus said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#conversation

Termite, you're young, and I'm not sure if you're going to understand what I'm about to say, but here's the nugget: Without the heart, nothing else matters. She could be the Goddess of Love, you could have all the mind-blowing sex you could physically handle, but when the shooting is over, and you're starting to think about getting a bite to eat, smoking a cigarette, or what you do with her now, you're just lying in bed with a woman who means little more to you than the remote control for your TV. Love is not tool; neither is a woman's heart. What I'm talking about, you won't find in that magazine." "How would you know? You just said you've only loved one woman. I think you need to test-drive a few cars before you buy one." "You can buy that lie if you want, but if you're working for a bank, you don't study the counterfeit to know the real thing. You study the real thing to know the counterfeit." Reese talking to Termite, pg. 109-110 ↗

— Charles Martin

#love #promiscuity #love

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#humor #lords-of-the-underworld #promiscuity #beauty

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#attacked #attempted #avoid #because #defended

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#promiscuity #sex #experience

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#i #literally #promiscuity #screw #them

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #like #monogamy #never #over