Sexualisation Quotes

“You took advantage of every second that I did not love myself.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry

“The body—objectified, sexualised, feared, hunted, worshiped—always the body, they adored him or hated him before they ever knew him. The body crushed him; he was its slave. He felt empty, reduced to a soulless thing.”
― Jamie Le Fay, Disillusion

“conditioned me to split my voice in two
one to keep to myself
the other to appease you”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“And I feel your empty hands on me
And I want to set them on fire.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry

“Stuck in a fetal position I sought out my lovers.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry

“I forced you out of myself
and never said goodbye”
― Laura Gentile, you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“Sex must be important as it is so expensive.”
― Steve Jones, The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future

“ich wachse mit einem Männerbild auf
das mir den Hals umdreht”
― Laura Gentile, Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte

“men needed two bodies to exist
one to exploit
and one to crown king”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“sex poured out of you, useless gasoline
and love, an inexistent light
that hadn’t touched the horizon”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“I was born
because one body had survived another”
― Laura Gentile, coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“The “pornification” of culture takes place in a context of the commodified emancipation of sexual desire and fantasies, free from the shackles of moral regulation. The morality of modern sexuality consists now in affirming mutual freedom, symmetry, and autonomy, rather than in respecting, say, sexual honor or norms of monogamy.”
― Eva Illouz, Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation