"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Desire, Emotion, Humor, Behavior

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"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."

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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

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"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

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"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

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"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

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"If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures."

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