“People appeared to have no clue how truly horrible they were.”

“It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.”

“Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didnt know the difference between the two, but this was more co...”

“It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.”

“I could have something like an encounter out there a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didnt know how to process.”

“Real men dont need porn.”

“All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others.”

“Many seasoned porn whores develop an ability to check out at will. The girl, on her back has unlit vacancy signs where her eyes once were.”

“Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

“Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.”