22 Metaphors for sex

Wherever there is a human difference fair play is difficult, the universal clash of races witnesses to that, and sex is the greatest of human differences.

He believed that sex is a relationship at the base of all things natural and divine; Nature, with endless being rife, Parts each thing into "him" and "her"

Sex itself is a positive battle.

" "Sex is their only appeal.

"We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead."

It is because sex is essentially a creativethe creativepower in humanity that we have to direct its force into some more spiritual channel than mere physical labour, if we are to make ourselves its master.

Sex shall be no disqualification for entering any business, vocation, or profession.

all the sex are vexation.

Turning now to the question of the wife's property in marriage, we shall be forced to believe that Blackstone was an optimist of unusual magnitude when he wrote that the female sex was "so great a favourite of the laws of England."

And, after all, the sex of The Quarterly reviewer itself remains a problem.

Jane, your sex is a puzzle that ain't worth the trouble solving.

Every one of us, whoever we are, whatever is our occupation, whatever our place of residence, whatever our age, whatever our sex, the motto in God's great workshop remains the same'To every one his work,' his own particular work, to be done by him, and by no one else.

" It is difficult for us, in such a case, to realize that sex is not a dirty thing.

But as several are of Opinion that the Fair Sex are not altogether Strangers to the Art of Dissembling and concealing their Thoughts, I have been forced to relinquish that Opinion, and have therefore endeavoured to seek after some better Reason.

All that is desirable for either sex is such an economy of labor, in this respect, as shall leave some spare time, to be appropriated in other directions.

Such glittering of gold-embroidered mantles, such bewildering confusion of colors, such flashing of jewelry from cap and dagger-hilt and finger-ring, and even from bridle and stirrup, testified that the male sex at this period in Italy were no whit behind the daughters of Eve in that passion for personal adornment which our age is wont to consider exclusively feminine.

Here sex, and the pronoun which follows, are masculine; because, the male sex, as well as the female, is here spoken of plurally. OBS.

Both sexes are extremely skilful bowmen.

The female sex are the "Schiera gentil the pur adorna il mondo.

But genders, in grammar, are attributes of words, rather than of persons, or animals, or things; whereas sexes are attributes, not of words, but of living creatures.

In those days Creole society was a ship, in which the fair sex were all passengers and the ruder sex the crew.

He believed that sex is a relationship at the base of all things natural and divine; Nature, with endless being rife, Parts each thing into "him" and "her"

22 Metaphors for  sex