sex

See Also: ATTRACTIVENESS, BODY ORGANS, BREASTS, MEN AND WOMEN, SEXUAL INTERACTION, RELATIONSHIPS

1. (To me they are) as as sexual as money; and, like money, unless they can engender passion, they are useless to me —W. P. Kinsella

   The frame of reference for Kinsella’s double simile is the other woman.

2. Batten’s [character in a novel] sex had wilted like a flag in the rain —George Garrett
3. Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple —Jeremy Taylor
4. An erection like a steeple —Jilly Cooper
5. Erotic as an ape —Karl Shapiro
6. I felt an abrupt rush of my semen, racing through me like twin rivers —Scott Spencer
7. Her climax came … suddenly, like an accident —Scott Spencer
8. Her sex power … hid in her eyes like a Sicilian bandit —Saul Bellow
9. His sex beat about like the cane of a furious blind man —Amos Oz
10. Horny as a tomcat —T. Coraghessan Boyle
11. In her passional life she was direct —like an axe falling —Lawrence Durrell
12. It’s rather like a sneeze —Truman Capote, responding to television interviewer’s question as to his feelings about sex
13. It [a first sexual encounter] was best when it was finished … like having a cup of really good coffee and a Havana after an indifferently cooked but urgently needed meal —John Braine
14. Just whispering “teenage sex” is like yelling fire in a crowded theatre —Ellen Goodman
15. A lack of sexuality so total that her smart clothes and too heavy-make-up made her pathetic; like an unsuccessful geisha —John Fowles
16. Like flowers groping toward the sun, millions of Americans are groping towards sexual nirvana —Anon

    See Also: CHARACTERISTICS, NATIONAL

17. Like hatred, sex must be articulated or, like hatred, it will produce a disturbing internal malaise —George Jean Nathan
18. (Her husband complained she) made love like an eager, clumsy cellist —J. D. McClatchy
19. My sex life … it’d make Moll Flanders look like she needed hormone therapy —Sue Miller
20. The only sex we were exposed to was with dreadful old whores..like diseased orchids —Tennesse Williams, Playboy, April, 1973
21. Orgasm is like a slight attack of apoplexy —Democritus
22. Orgasm is like the tickling feeling you get inside your nose before you sneeze —Children’s 1972 sex education manual
23. Pornography is like peanut butter —a little goes a long way —Arthur Morowitz, New York Times, October 5, 1986
24. [Sexual] restraints fell from her like mere rags, or rather, like that dead skin which is scraped off in a steam bath —Marguerite Yourcenar
25. Sensual as a ripe, thick-veined scarlet fruit —John Logan
26. Sex becomes as routine as tying one’s shoes —Deborah Phillips, New York Times/Personal Health, October 8, 1986

    See Also: COMMONPLACE

27. Sex is a subject like every other subject. Every bit as interesting as agriculture —Muriel Spark
28. Sex … it’s great stuff, like chocolate sundaes —Raymond Chandler
29. Sexless as a machine —Ellen Glasgow
30. Sexless as an anemic nun —Sinclair Lewis
31. (Some men have a) sexual disposition as vigorous, indiscriminate, and as demanding, as a digestive tract —John Cheever
32. Sexual pleasure, like rending pain, represents the stunning triumph of the immediate —Simone de Beauvoir
33. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners —Alice Munro
34. Sometimes I feel like a public utility —Charles Johnson

    The character who makes this comparison about herself in Johnson’s novel, Oxherding Tale, is a woman who has had “an army” of lovers.

35. There were people … for whom love and sex came easy, without active solicitation, like a strong wind to which they had only to turn their faces —David Leavitt
36. Virility … was like a gloss on him —Barbara Taylor Bradford
37. Wears her sex like an expensive perfume —Lawrence Durrell
38. (Lucille’s aunt had) wrapped her own dank virginity round her like someone sharing a mackintosh —Elizabeth Bowen