5. "Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction."     

(Elizabeth Janeway)

6. "Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door."     

(Sigmund Freud)

7. “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in

life.”

(Sigmund Freud, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love)

8. “Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”

(Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality)

9. “What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

( John Steinbeck, East of Eden)

10. “Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.”

(Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)