"Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure."

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Source : Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.43, Seal Press

Jessica Valenti

#Sex Quotes #Fun Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU”
“If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”
“The status quo is simply unacceptable.”
“God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lordâ€™s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.”
“I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects.”
“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”
“They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.”
“The key to your universe is that you can choose.”

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