It’s 2023, and our cultural role models are people like Lizzo and Beyoncé, who believe and live out the idea of owning your body and your sexuality. These are stars that in their music, their concerts, and their social media posts — volume cranked all the way up to 11 — about feeling sexy and knowing it, without any hesitation.
More and more, it’s part of the cultural conversation to love your body and take matters into your own hands, literally. We’re following our favorite sex educators on social media, who are keeping the dialogue going and openly discussing sexuality in the LGBTQIA+ community. We’re asking the important questions: What are the best sex positions that’ll make you feel confident and in control? The things that used to make our grandmothers cringe and clutch their pearls are finally topics open to discussion — and we couldn’t be happier.
Sex should never be a taboo topic, and being proud of your sexuality is downright beautiful and more than welcome right now. These 16 quotes can serve as some inspiration to help get you into the confident, body-positive headspace.
Be Whatever You Want to Be
Beyoncé dropped this gem of a quote in an interview with Out magazine in 2014.
Body Love
Journalist and author Naomi Wolf wrote this in her book The Beauty Myth.
Carnal & Beautiful
Author Fiona Zedde wrote this in her book Bliss.
Her Enigma
Peter Brooks is an author and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale.
It’s in the Curves
Author Roman Payne wrote this in his novel The Love of Europa.
Live Passionately
Judith Plaskow wrote this in her 1991 book Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective.
Wanting Pleasure
Author Nenia Campbell wrote this in her novel Bound to Accept.
No Chaperone Needed
Alice Bag is the author of Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story.
Emancipated Woman
Simone de Beauvoir wrote this in the 2011 book The Second Sex.
Nothing Wrong with Sex
Author Alessandra Torre wrote this in the 2013 novel Sex Love Repeat.
The Secret to an Orgasm
Feminist icon Betty Friedan was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women and author of 1963's The Feminine Mystique.
What Is Purity?
Kaija Sabbah is an artist and model living in rural Northern California.
The Joy of Sexuality
Fiona Thrust wrote this in her novel Naked and Sexual.
Simmering Energy
Author Sera Beak wrote this in her 2006 novel The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark.
The Mind Speaks
New York Times Bestseller Mary Roach wrote this in Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
Uncharted Territory
Author Caroline Knapp wrote this in her 2011 bestseller Appetites.
Wondrously Made
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote this in her 2011 book All But Alice.
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