Sex - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

Have fun reading it, this is really interesting and breathtaking!

Homosexuality is a political crime in a matriarchy. No society tolerates overt rejection of its basic tenets.

- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)

The worst thing about sex is that we use it to hurt each other. It ought never to hurt; it should bring happiness, or at least, pleasure.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

''Don't you know, Deckard, that in the colonies they have android mistresses?'' ''It's illegal,'' Rick said, knowing the law about that. ''Sure it's illegal. But most variations in sex are illegal. But people do it anyhow.''

- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Sex, whatever else it is - much else! - is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

- Robert A. Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil (1970)

We lie there on the magic carpet of shared bodies.

- William S. Burroughs, TheWild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971)

Sex is either for making babies or making careers; not for fun.

- Ben Bova, ''Zero Gee'' (1972)

[On sex in space:] They were in their own world now, their private cosmos, floating freely and softly in the darkness. Touching, drifting, coupling, searching the new seas and continents, they explored their world.

- Ben Bova, ''Zero Gee'' (1972)

Catherine had a natural and healthy curiosity for the perverse in all its forms.

- J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973)

The endless highway systems along which we moved contained the formulas for an infinity of sexual bliss.

- J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973)

Sex is a comforting aggravation.

- Susanna Jacobson, ''Notes from Magdalen More'' (1973)

I'm just a sweet transvestite From Transexual Transylvania.

- Richard O'Brien, ''Sweet Transvestite,'' The Rocky Horror Show (play, 1973)

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)

I was taught in crиche to class coition with eating, drinking, breathing, sleeping, playing, talking, cuddling - the pleasant necessities that make life a happiness instead of a burden.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Friday (1982)

Sex is a better tranquilizer than any of those drugs and much better for your metabolism. I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex; it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Friday (1982)

There are only so many ways that a male human body and a female human body can be joined together, and all of them, it seems, had already been invented by the time the glaciers came.

- Robert Silverberg, ''House of Bones'' (1988)

There is no fucking in Hades.

- Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate toWomen's Country (1988)

When sex fails for you - when it ceases to be central in your life - you enter middle age, a zone of the most unclear exits from which some of us never escape.

- M. John Harrison, ''Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring'' (1994)

The marketing lie was that the suits were ''consensual aids to full body aura alignment,'' not sex toys. Yeah, right. Psychobabble. She was being diddled by an oversized condom possessed of fuzzy logic.

- Nalo Hopkinson, ''Ganger (Ball Lightning)'' (2000)