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41 " Porne is a Greek word referring to a female slave, literally meaning a woman purchased for the purpose of prostitution "
― Sara Pascoe , Sex Power Money
42 " from adolescence onwards, the female body maintains a CONSTANT STATE of fertility signalling. Our breasts and bums don’t swell up to say ‘Hey, I’m fertile, come on over’ on a cyclical basis. Instead they stay swollen up, saying that All. The. Time. "
43 " What’s happening is that someone doesn’t enjoy what they’re feeling, whether it’s an erection during Ramadan or arousal provoked by a much younger person. The feelings make him feel ashamed and the focus of those feelings is blamed. "
44 " a woman’s life can be an assault course of avoiding male attention. I’ve encountered this as much as any city-dwelling woman, but as for the reason it happens – I’d never really got past ‘men are pigs’. NOT ALL MEN. "
45 " Our species does not have a set of triggered physical signals to create sexual interest, and that has resulted in constant sexual interest. "
46 " They asked participants what colour top they had on and when their last period was, and then got slapped for asking personal questions calculated how likely participants were to be ovulating. They found 40 per cent of the ‘likely fertile’ group were wearing red or pink versus only 7 per cent of the rest, which is CRAZY but needs to be replicated with more people before I’ll be completely convinced. "
47 " men prefer the smell of ovulating women – their odours were rated more pleasant – and, even more astonishingly, that men’s testosterone levels were raised by sniffing the sweat of women mid-cycle, but not at other times. "
48 " One possible benefit, which would have powerfully shaped the social aspect of our species, is that if multiple males have mated with a female, they might all be willing to contribute resources and protection to the child. This means more food and increased safety, both for mothers and for their young. "
49 " It’s an unhelpful paradox that a person is at their least sexy when sexually frustrated. It’s particularly difficult to seduce someone when you’ve snot running down your face. "
50 " 75 per cent of men agreed to sex. Just like that. Come on a date? Erm … Come round my house? I’ll think about it. Wanna have sex? COUNT ME IN. Can you guess how many of the female students agreed to the sex question? Zero. Big fat none. "
51 " Top of my head – Lot’s daughters all trying to get off with him, and two entire cities wanking and bumming so much they had to be destroyed "
52 " the caller could ask hot questions like ‘What are you wearing?’ and the sex phone operator would answer something sexy like ‘Sexy pants. "
53 " To be clear, 83 per cent of images in the porn image section of Usenet were pornographic. That means 17 per cent of the images in the porn groups were not pornographic, and I’m sorry, that is far more intriguing. What were they? Cats? Birthday cakes? "
54 " Kalinda made a fascinating point in her dissertation about the gender pay gap being easily bridged by how much more money men are willing to spend on sexy women than women are willing to spend on sexy men. "
55 " It never occurred to me that it might take bravery to speak to a stranger, to risk rejection. That the offer of a drink was a socially acceptable way of saying, ‘May I enter your life? Might we have fun together? "
56 " This wish to ‘protect’ women from ‘exploitation’ is built on our cultural morality that sex without love is bad, that there is something precious about sex which means anyone having it outside of a relationship is ‘broken’. We don’t view the men in porn that way, even though they’re there too and BEING PAID EVEN LESS. "
57 " Women who have chosen to pay their mortgage by being looked at are suddenly being told that how they feed themselves and their kids isn’t appropriate any more. It is ‘at odds’. It is not believed ‘appropriate’. "
58 " If sex is just an activity, can you do it with your parents, like tennis or ju-jitsu? No, because incest was selected against in our evolution. It causes genetic malfunction, it reduces the health and ability of offspring. "
59 " A porn actress is flagrantly violating two of our inbuilt ‘rules’ – sex in private and fidelity for paternity certainty – hence my unbidden unease about her profession. "