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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972
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