Exhibitionism Quotes

“Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the narcissistic aura are those in whom healthy childhood exhibitionism has been repressed. . . . If the parent puts the child to shame for showing off, the need for attention gets repressed into the unconscious. Repression means that the need is not satisfied and continues to press for expression in the adult without her being aware of it. The repressed adult may select an exhibitionistic mate to achieve vicarious satisfaction.”
― Elan Golomb, Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self

“I don't want to be looked at and grab attention, that's exhibitionism.. I would rather be seen more for my intelligence, for my elegance, for not being just another girl seeking attention. I don't want to catch someone's eyes because those kind of
attention spans are short and easily shifted to the next exhibitionist, I would rather stay in the memory as someone who refused to be a performer yet made an impact.”
― Simmal Khan

“I don't want to be looked at and grab attention, that's exhibitionism. I would rather be seen more for my intelligence, for my elegance, for not being just another girl seeking attention.
I don't want to catch someone's eyes because those kind of attention spans are short and easily shifted to the next exhibitionist, I would rather stay in the memory as someone who refused to be a performer yet made an impact.”
― Simmal Khan

“Okay, she was healthy and if a healthy woman liked to be looked at and not as a side of beef then it follows, as the night from day, that healthy men should like to look at them, else there was just no darn sense to it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Apparently, just like misery loves company, so does exhibitionism.”
― B.J. Wane, Miami Masters Collection

“The club was only dimly lit aside from the flashing strobes and rotating beams casting their vibrant glow over the pulsing, writhing crowd. The heat of the club was a stark contrast to the chill of the air outside, and she pulled slightly at the sweater, cursing her modesty for quite possibly the first time.”
― Alaria Thorne

“Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.”
― Tim Robson

“When the writer cannot convince his Super-Ego of the "harmlessness" of his imagination, he has no ideas at all. If however, he clears that hurdle but cannot obtain approval of his (harmless) exhibitionism in "writing it down," he cannot write.”
― Edmund Bergler, The Writer and Psychoanalysis

“You're going to be the president of your frat," Daddy had told him. Dylan considered this honor, then dropped his pants and screamed, "Look at my penis!" "See, you're halfway there," Daddy had said.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Vera, or Faith

“Here is what it was like: it was like coming across a haughty woman with no clothes on strolling across her lawn in the early morning, like you’re just a perverted squirrel in the bushes and that’s why she’s doing it in the first place. You’re just the prop and the audience and the fall guy rolled into one.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds