Taylor Claypool

“If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

“One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

“Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut : A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures

“This kind of love can be thrilling and overwhelming and sometimes a hell of a lot of fun, but it is not the only “real” kind of love, nor is it always a good basis for an ongoing relationship. Yet as George Bernard Shaw famously remarked, “When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut : A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures