Marquis de Sade Sex Quotations

Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.