61 Quotes by Dossie Easton

One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.

A flowerchild in a 1967 interview made the most succinct description of ethical sluthood we've ever seen :"We believe it's okay to have sex with anybody you love... and we believe in loving everybody. You are already whole.".

Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.

One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you’re feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.

The real test of love is when a person – including you – can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

Empathy in BDSM presents a wonderful paradox: as tops in role, we are often called upon to present ourselves as cold, cruel and unfeeling, when in fact we are getting our rocks off on an empathy so profound that it can approach the telepathic. So we believe that, contrary to the opinions of the uninformed, consensual sadism, dominance and topping are primarily empathic activities.

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.

We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.

The problem is that when you blame someone else for how you feel, you disempower yourself from finding solutions. If this is someone else’s fault, only that person can fix it, right? So poor you can’t do anything but sit there and moan. On.