Roses

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller

Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

Baby
Tell me you need it
Tell me you want it
Get down on your knees…

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
(Pietro Aretino)

Bloody Roses

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
~ Mark Overby

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ~Virgil

Sin

“Pleasure is the bait of sin”
~ Plato

Pearls and roses

When I awake, you are a necklace,
With special beads you are a chain.

Life without love is a shadow of things that might be

Dirty

Dirty should not be a code word for wanting but not having, for craving that never seems to end
— Rachel Kramer Bussel

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

“Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”

(Woody Allen)

It’s hard not to melt back into his arms for a few minutes of oblivion. I feel exquisitely desirable. I want to pour myself over this beautiful boy that the holy beings have tossed to me like a ball of light.
— Bonnie Linden, “What Is Offered”

Tension

“ Tension is erotic. I want to see tendons stretched and muscles taut, arms extended to grasp desire, fervid mouths feeding hungrily on concupiscence. I want to feel want, lust, pain, joy, uncertainty. Mere acquiescence lacks the base humanity which makes this fun. Comfort, I fear, is for the frigid."

Consenting Adults