quotes

"But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already."
-Waiter Rant

"Through the body we are seeing something of the soul and therefore the mystery of life itself. The compulsive aspect of sexual gazing betrays the fact that our looking is not deep enough. When we honor a holy icon we know we're in the presence of the numinous. But in our secular society we have lost an explicit awareness of the sanctity of sex. We think of it in purely human terms, as far from religion as possible and therefore our looking is not right. Our sexual gaze is full of numinosity, but we have no language or artful ritual for this kind of veneration"
-Thomas Moore, 'Soul of Sex'

"If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim."
-Cyril Connolly