Erica Jong Sex Quotations

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Most sex is not really intimate.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.