“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”
Susan Sontag
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Thoughts for Lovers!
Quote of the Day – February 4 2021
“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.” Sigmund Freud, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love [...]
Quote of the Day – February 3 2021
“In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck” Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell An evolutionary arms race? Biology fascinates me [...]
Quote of the Day – February 2 2021
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. Walker Evans Quotes for Lovers who talk [...]
Quote of the Day – February 1 2021
"Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it [...]
Quote of the Day – January 31 2021
“Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.” Rimy de Gourmont Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica
Quote of the Day – September 11 2019
“The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning… The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to [...]
Quote of the Day – September 10 2019
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” John Waters Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica
Quote of the Day – September 9 2019
"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex." Havelock Ellis Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica [...]
History of Erotica
29 Pieces Of Erotic Art That Prove People Have Always Loved Sex
Image: A jade erotic art piece made during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). China. Sexuality has been a part of the human experience since our inception as a species. Since the beginning of civilization, humans [...]
Stone Age Carving: Ancient Dildo?
Sex toys have come a long way since the Stone Age – but then again, perhaps not as much as we might think. Last week, an excavation in Sweden turned up an object that bears [...]
Phallic worship around the world in ancient times
From post: A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say. The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about [...]
Article – Pornography or erotic art? Japanese museum aims to confront shunga taboo
From the article: Japan’s adult movie industry is among the biggest in the world, and its range of pornographic manga is eclectic and ubiquitous. But it has taken centuries-old works of art for the country [...]
