sex:
1. The most common meaning is intercourse , which means two people (often thought of as a man and a woman) engaging in the physical act of sex.Etymology: From the Latin secare, to cut or divide.
Quotes:
(1) Mae West: ' Sex is emotion in motion .'
(2) Anonymous: ' Sex in France is a comedy, in England a tragedy, in America a melodrama, in Germany a philosophy, in Italy an opera .'
(3) Patty O'Neill (Maggie McNamara) to Donald Gresham (William Holden) in The Moon is Blue (1953): ' Don't you think it's better for a girl to be preoccupied with sex than occupied? '
(4) Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) in Take the Money and Run (1969): ' In prison, I remember this psychiatrist asked if I had a girl and I said no . And he said: Do you think sex is dirty? And I said it is if you do-it right .'
(5) Sonja (Diane Keaton) and Boris (Woody Allen) in Love and Death (1975):
-- Sonja: ' Sex without love is an empty experience .'
-- Boris : ' Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best .'
(6) Andrew (Woody Allen) in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982): ' Sex alleviates tension and love causes it .'
(7) Nathalie De Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) in The Moderns (1988): ' Don't confuse sex and love , Mr. Hart. It will spoil both of 'em for you .'
(8) Woody Allen in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' The last time I was inside a woman was when I was inside the Statue of Liberty .'
(9) Barbara Stern (Caroline Aaron) to Clifford (Woody Allen) in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): ' Once the sex goes it all goes .'
(10) Sam Lester (Matthew Broderick) in The Night We Never Met (1993): ' Sex is a little bit like politics; the incumbent always has the advantage .'
(11) Young Vada (Anna Chlumsky) after a woman-to-woman talk about the facts of life with Shelley (Jamie Lee Curtis) in My Girl (1991): ' I think it should be outlawed .'
(12) Young Frank Wheeler (Michael Patrick Carter) to V (Melanie Griffith) in Milk Money (1994): 'Sex! I decided it's an evil scheme .'
(13) Lawrence Paros. The Erotic Tongue (1984): ' Sex is easier done than said .'
(14) Movie producer Frank Musso (Joe Mantegna) seduced by Norma Jean Hazelrigg (Cassidy Rae) in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins (1995): ' Before I knew what was happening she was doing things to me that I hadn't even done to me, things that Masters never told Johnson, that Kinsey kept out of his report. And when it was all over I found myself in much deeper than I had planned .'
(15) Andrew Martin (Robin Williams) about 'sexual relations' in Centennial Man (2000): ' They say (...) that you can lose yourself, everything, all boundaries , all time. The two bodies can become so mixed up that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die , you kinda do . Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. That's the miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. Go back any time you want with the one you love .'
2. An event/instance/act of physical intimacy between a man and a woman , between two females, between two males, between more than two people, or by one's self (masturbation).
Quotes:
(1) Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) to Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)(1977): ' That was the most fun I ever had without laughing .'
(2) Jenny (Lana Turner) and Rigby (Steve Martin) in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982):
-- Jenny Sue: ' What are we going to do? '
-- Rigby Reardon: ' Kinsey from cover to cover .'
(3) Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) in City Slickers (1991): ' Women need a reason to have-sex . Men just need a place .'
3. In every day speech, sex and gender are used interchangeably; in the social sciences a distinction is made between them: a) sex = the biological makeup of the human body, its genital configuration, while: b) gender = the social meanings and characteristics associated with certain types of people.
Quotes:
(1) Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): ' 'Sex comes from the Latin secare, "to cut or divide," and we first used the word to designate the two major categories of humanity we have come to know and love as male and female. (...) We later used the word sex not only for dividing the sexes, but to refer to qualities of being male or female .'
(2) Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ' An understanding of the difference between sex and gender is crucial to the correct use of language. Sex is biological: people with male genitals are male, and people with female genitals are female. Gender is cultural: our notions "masculine" tells us how we expect men to behave and our notions of "feminine " tells us how we expect women to behave - but these may have nothing to do with biology. (...) Gender signifies an individual's personal, legal, and social status without reference to genetic sex; gender is a subjective cultural attitude while sex is an objective biological fact .'
(3)Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) and husband Adam (Spencer Tracy) in Adam's Rib (1949):
-- Amanda : ' There is no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same. '
-- Adam : ' They are, hum? '
-- Amanda : ' Well, maybe there is a difference but it's a little difference .'
-- Adam : ' Well you know what the French say. '
-- Amanda : ' What do they say? '
-- Adam : 'Vive la différence.'
-- Amanda : ' Which means? '
-- Adam : ' Which means: Hooray for that little difference. '
(4) Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) to his wife Amanda (Katharine Hepburn) in Adam's Rib (1949): ' I'm old-fashioned , I like two sexes .'
(5) Crossdressers Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon) to Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis) in Some Like It Hot (1959): ' I tell you, it's a whole different sex .'
(6) Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) as a carny in The Jerk (1979): ' For one dollar, I'll guess your weight, your height or your sex .'
(7) The Dowager Empress (Helen Hayes) to the flirty Baroness von Livenbaum (Martita Hunt) in Anastasia (1956): ' To a woman of your age sex should be nothing but gender .'
(8) Vicky (Elizabeth McGovern) thinking of Jerry (Beau Bridges) in Women & Men. Stories of Seduction (1990): ' I sure hate sex sometimes. His sex in particular .'
4. Sexuality.
Quotes:
(1) Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) in Take the Money and Run (1969): ' In prison, I remember this psychiatrist asked if I had a girl and I said no . And he said: Do you think sex is dirty? And I said it is if you do-it right .'
(2) Jack Burroughs (Alan Alda) and Claudia Zimmer (Rita Moreno) in The Four Seasons (1981):
-- Jack: ' Sexuality was born in wetness .'
-- Claudia: ' It's easier that-way .'
(3) Edwina (Lily Tomlin) and Roger (Steve Martin) sharing the same body in All of Me (1984):
-- Edwina: ' What's so important about sex? '
-- Roger Cobb: ' That's like saying: what's so important about laughing or Duke Ellington or the World Series? It's one-of-those things that makes you feel like you're really living, like you're glad to be alive .'
-- Edwina Cutwater: ' I am already glad to be alive. I don't need to play-tonsil-hockey with some English tart to feel good .'
(4) Leonard Cummings (Peter Frechette) to his younger brother Charles (Jon Cryer) in No Small Affair (1984): ' Sex has nothing to do with love . Sex washes off .'
(5) Blue movie producer Angelo Corelli (Keenan Wynn) to director Charly Rummel (Warren Beatty) in Promise Her Anything (1966):
-- Angelo Corelli: ' Times have changed .'
-- Charlye Rummel: ' Sex never changes .'
-- Angelo Corelli: ' Only in America. In Denmark it changes .'
(6) Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): ' Sex and religion have always gone hand in-hand , usually in a fierce arm-wrestle. They make great conversational bookends .'
Synonyms: Bombay-roll, boob-balling, bunny-rub, coitus-inter-mammas, coitus-intramammas, coitus-intermammarius, coitus-a-mammilla, diddiride, Dutch-fuck, French-fuck, fuck-tits, fuck-a-brisket, go-Dutch, jug-jousting, mammary-coitus, mastophallation, mazophallate, muscle-fuck, piss-in-the-dugout, Russian (culture), sex-between-hills, sex-between-mountains, shoot-between-the-fagots, titch, tit-fucking, titty-fuck, titwank, trip-down-mammary-lane, TVF, Mammary-Intercourse, dip-in-the-fudge-pot, fuck-in-the-brown, butt-plug, 66, 99, a-bit-of-brown, a-bit-of-ring, a-bucking, ace-fuck, anal-coitus, anal-copulation, anal-dance, anal-delight, anal-intercourse, anal-genital coition, anal-genital coitus, fuck up the ass, fuck where the devil fears to tread, fudge-packing, get some brown (surgar), get-some-mud-for-the-duck, get-some-round-eye, getting some round eye, go-Hollywood, going-down-the-dirt-road, going-down-the-Hershey-highway, going-up-the-ass, going-up-the-chute, going up mustard road, going-up-the-Hershey-Bar-road, go-up-the-dirt-road, going-up-the-mustard-road, going up the (old) dirt road, Greek (greek), Greek-art(s), Greek-culture(s), Greek-love, Greek-style, Greek-way, greeking, gut-reaming, guy-fucking, have-a-bit-of-bum, have-a-bit-of-navy-cake, have-a-bit-of-tail, Hershey-Bar-route, high-Greek, Hindustani-jig, hole-in-one, hole-it, hose, hot-dogging, impale, in-the-brown, in-the-saddle, Italian-culture, Italian-fashion, Italian-habit, Italian-way, keester-stab, kicking the back the door in, lay-the-leg, let's-play-52-pick-up, love that dare not speak its name, mix-your-peanut-butter, molly, moon shot (moonshot), (the) nameless crime, navy-style, ninety-nine
Quotes Containing sex:
Guess what? You're having free sex right now. You're getting screwed and you don't even know it .' Huey Walker's (Dennis Hopper) speech in Flashback (1989) is sometimes misquoted as: '...you're getting fucked ...'
'Practice safe-sex ; go fuck yourself.' Graffito
'Just remember, this is a mercy-fuck .' Ellen Stone (Dyan Cannon) consenting to have-sex-with her ex-husband Harry (Danny Aiello) to keep him from jumping out the window and as an alternative to re-marriage in The Pickle (1993)
'The mathematician Von Blecks Devised the equation for sex Having proved a good fuck Isn't patience or luck But a function of Y over X .' VARIANT: 'The mathematician Von Blecks Derived the equation for sex He found a good fuck Isn't patience or luck But a function of Y over X .' Limerick: Ca. 1949.
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