“That which her slender waist confin’d Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. Edmund Waller
“But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the newborn infant’s tear And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. William Blake
“Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed— Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead. Christopher Marlowe
“In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.Laura Mulvey
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate’s sultry. George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be—the tragedy of the bedroom.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy