#sexualit

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. ↗

— Ang Lee

#being honest #big #big issue #commit #honest

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#africa #aids #assault #attacks #behaviour

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#before #came #deeply #experience #i

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

He managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant of fantasy by telling himself it was the curse of being male. In the presence of a beautiful woman, he had always experienced that knee-jerk reaction to being reduced - if only momentarily - to skin, bone, and testosterone. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#beauty

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#box #celebration #certain #certain extent #extent

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#fight #fight scene #harder #higher #i

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. ↗

— Troy Perry

#any #cannot #christian #condemned #find

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#breaks #female #her #paintings #sexuality