“The more we get to the heart of what turns us on, the more evident it becomes that sexual arousal is not often logical, politically correct, or clean.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“Golden showers are an acquired taste. It’s kind of like calamari: You might think it’s disgusting, but have you ever tried it? Golden showers are basically the calamari of the kink community.”— Mistress Darcy, vogue.com
“Just because I had a bad sexual experience doesn’t mean that I’m broken. It means that I know to avoid that thing going forward.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“We all want to find ways to get out of our minds. That’s why spirituality, yoga, and the meditation industry have become so huge—people are trying to train their brain to be quiet.”— Alexandra Roxo, vogue.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”— Frank Zappa, brainyquote.com
“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”— Anne Fadiman, theatlantic.com
“We have this weird thing in the world where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.”— John Green, goodreads.com
“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“Floods cause greater property damage and more deaths than tornadoes or hurricanes.”— Ian Bogost, theatlantic.com
“Power Rectitude Respect Affection Wealth Well-being Enlightenment Skill”— Harold D. Lasswell, wjh.harvard.edu
“PornHub's data revealed the younger the generation, the less interested they are in women’s mammaries. The data exhibits young adults ages 18 to 24 are almost 20 percent less likely to search for breast-related content on the site whereas those 55 to 64 were 17 percent more likely.”— Bobby Box, playboy.com
“Did outing Charlottesville's white supremacists just make them more committed?”— James King, mashable.com
“Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.”— Mila Versteeg, theatlantic.com
“We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com