Edmund White - Sexual Quotes

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The right to have sex, even to look for it, has been so stringently denied to gays for so many centuries that the drive toward sexual freedom remains a bright, throbbing banner in the fierce winds whipping over the ghetto.

Edmund White

When 'morality' is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions... but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

Edmund White

Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.

Edmund White