When I write about sex, I’m just being honest, not trying to turn anyone on or piss anyone off.

— Reverend Jen, author of Live Nude Elf, to The National Post (via rkb)

She’s aware of her power but she isn’t sure yet how to use it, what to do with it, how much she even wants it. That body is still new to her, she’s still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he’s packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

For me, what’s compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths.

— Catherine Brady