By 1943 Wittgenstein was sympathetic to a view of the sexual act which saw it as an object of religious reverence.

– Ray Monk

Egypt’s sages were concerned with the question of the origin of the universe, and their consideration of the matter led them to define the creation as a sexual act.

– Anthelme and Rossini

Why in the world shouldn’t they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated?

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sin, to the indigenes, meant the disallowing of sexuality or anything else to interfere with samadhi, enlightenment, but at the same time, sexuality lay at the very core of that enlightenment, for the ascetic was also inherently sexual.

– Hugh Fox

In early history the body as a whole, as well as each separate aspect, was sacred. Food, drink, breath and copulation were regarded as sacred channels for the power to enter man.

– Maria-Gabriele Wosien

Rites were centered around the physical worship of woman, and the organs of sex in the woman’s body became the Kestra, the enclosed field of power, itself the instrument of magic and transformation.

– Pupul Jayakar

The vulva represents ecstatic pleasure as a means of union with the divine state of the Great Mother. In this sense, transcendent sexual ecstasy becomes a deeply religious experience. It reveals the mysteries of sexuality in which Neolithic religion was rooted.

The Goddess’s presence is revealed in sexual desire. She is the attracting hormonal scent of woman and the radiant glow of sexual satisfaction. She is the Mistress of the Vulva, and the sacred Vulva is the Queen’s Altar, the receptacle of offerings of love and semen. From her altar pours the celebratory erotic energy of love, the original mystery of birth, the cry of new life.

– Layne Redmond