Mohammad Aboomar > Mohammad's Quotes

“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure of prostitution, fornication adultery, or pornography.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the prosecution of a pamphlet describing how priests were often so sexually aroused while hearing women’s confessions that they sometimes masturbated and even copulated with their repentant subjects in the confessional.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: “We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“An individual with genital character, according to Reich, was fully in contact with with his body, his drives, his environment- he possessed “orgastic potency,” the capacity to “surrender to the flow of energy in the orgasm without any inhibition…free of anxiety and unpleasure and unaccompanied by fantasies”; and while genital character alone would not assure enduring contentment, the individual at least would not be blocked or diverted by destructive or irrational emotion or by exaggerated respect for institutions that were not life-enhancing.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual’s armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world’s chaos and warfare.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Departing from Freud’s exclusively verbal analysis, Reich studied the body as well as the mind, and he concluded after years of clinical observation and social work that signs of disturbed behavior could be detected in a patient’s musculature, the slope of his posture, the shape of his jaw and mouth, his tight muscles, rigid bones, and other physical traits of a defensive or inhibiting nature. Reich identified this body rigidity as “armor.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an “economic interest” in the continued role of women as “the provider of children for the state” and the performer of household chores without pay.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Whatever influence Bullaro’s normally cautious character might have exerted over the passions of his penis were now nonexistent, and he unhesitatingly followed her and quickly undressed.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Bullaro blushed. Barbara guided him around the room to meet other people, but all he saw in furtive glances were dangling breasts and hairy chests, bare buttocks and white thighs, pubic hair of various colors, penises that were large and small, circumcised and uncircumcised, and, remarkably, unerect.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“While the quest for adventure that had long plagued him now tempted him to remove his clothes, an even more persuasive force within him prevented him from doing so, mainly because he feared revealing for the first time in front of so many people that unpredictable organ he assumed was everyman’s burden- although, as he was apparent from the number of flaccid phalli he saw around him, no man seemed burdened tonight except himself.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty years. In Georgia such a “crime against nature” could lead a practitioner to life imprisonment at hard labor- a penalty far more severe than having sex with animals, which in Georgia was punishable by only five years.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“The average married man, if he had the energy, could have sex with several women without diminishing the affection and desire he felt for his wife. But women like Judith- unlike truly liberated females like Barbara and Arlene- could not simply accept a man as a temporary instrument of pleasure; they wanted soft lights and promises, not just a penis but the man attached to it.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Many couples in the room merely watched the proceedings in wonderment, and to them the visit to Sandstone was a learning experience, a biology class, an opportunity to become increasingly knowledgeable about sex in the way that people traditionally learned about almost everything except sex, through the observation and imitation of other people.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“In his parochial school, the nuns had advised him and his classmates that they should sleep each night on their backs with their arms crossed on their chests, hands on opposite shoulders- a presumably holy posture that, not incidentally, made masturbation impossible.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a “downer.” And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people each day paid psychiatrists money to be heard, the massage man paid money to be touched.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“I had examined him that day, too, looking away when his eyes met mine, for signs of difference, of godlessness. I didn't see any, but I was sure they were there somewhere. They had to be.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“إن الذي يفعل عيوبه و ذنوبه تحت توقيعه هو ، لأفضل معصيةً و ديناً من الذي يفعلها تحت توقيع السماء”
― عبد الله القصيمي, أيها العقل من رآك

“الخوف وليد الجهل، فإن من يجهل الشيء يخافه.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال

“فهؤلاء الذين يجهرون كل وقت بالدعوة إلى الانسلاخ من عصرهم ومن علومه وأخلاقه وعاداته ونظمه، ليحملوا أنفسهم على أزمان قصية عشقوها، وليعيشوا بأخلاقها وعلومها وعاداتها، ما مثلهم إلا كإنسان قد شد شدا محكما لا خلاص منه بعربة متجهة بسرعة إلى جهة من الجهات، يحاول الرحوع إلى الجهة الأخرى بكل ما فيه من تحفز وتوثب واهتمام وأعصاب. إن مثل هذا الإنسان لن ينال من هذه المحاولة سوى إجهاد أعصابه وسوى عذابه النفسي المتواصل، ولكنه لن يتخلى عن عربته ولن يرجع إلا جهته.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال

“وإن الناس على درجات متفاوتة جدا في هذه المسألة، مسألة القدرة على مفارقة المألوف، بل القدرة على امتحانه لينبذ إن ثبت أنه غير صالح أو أن غيره أصلح. فبعضهم يضع قدميه في أسفل السلم، وبعضهم في أعلى السلم وبعضهم بعيدا جدا." عبد الله القصيمي في هذه هي الأغلال.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال

“إن أعاصير رجعية مجنونة لتهب في هذه الآونة الأخيرة على مصر التي رضيناها لنا زعيمة، وإنها لتترنح تحتها. ولا ندري أتثبت لها أم تتهاوى تحت ضرباتها الوجيعة.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال

“حتى إننا إذا حاولنا أن نتلمس في تاريخنا نفسه مكان أولئك الأفذاذ القلائل الذين لمعوا في سماء الشعر أو الأدب الخالد، أو قاموا بنظريات علمية لها بقاء وخلود، أو جاءوا بفلسفة ذات شأن معترف به بين الفلسفات، لم تجدهم إلا بين أولئك الذين وصفوا بالتمرد والإنحلال الديني، أمثال المتنبي وأبي العلاء وابن الرومي والجاحظ وابن سينا والرازي والفارابي وابن رشد وجابر بن حيان والحسن بن الهيثم وسواهم.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, هذي هي الأغلال