Love and sex

“But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex.

It’s lack of love we die from.“ Chapter 18 THMT

“I want to reach up, taste his skin…It’s so good,

to be touched by someone to be felt so greedily.” THMT

"I hunger to touch something, other than cloth or wood.

I hunger to commit the act of touch." Chapter 2 THMT

“The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent.

Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now.” Chapter 9 THMT

“Maybe he thinks I’ve been slutting around,

at Jezebel’s, with the Commander or more.” THMT

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved

so much as to be understood.“ 3.2 1984

“Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting

minor operation, like having an enema.“ 1984

“If they could make me stop loving you –

that would be the real betrayal” W to J 1984

“Listen. The more men you’ve had, the

more I love you. Do you understand that?” Winston to Julia 1984

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him,

or into the air all around him. She had become a physical necessity.”