On the Road Sex Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #46

"Oh man, what kicks!" yelled Dean. "Now Marylou, listen really, honey, you know that I’m hotrock capable of everything at the same time and I have unlimited energy - now in San Francisco we must go on living together. I know just the place for you - at the end of the regular chain-gang run - I’ll be home just a cut-hair less than every two days and for twelve hours at a stretch, and man, you know what we can do in twelve hours, darling. Meanwhile I’ll go right on living at Camille’s like nothin, see, she won’t know. We can work it, we’ve done it before." It was all right with Marylou, she was really out for Camille’s scalp. (II.6.4)

In On the Road, women and men are equally manipulative when it comes to sex.

Quote #47

He went right on with his tale. "I tell you it’s true, I started at nine, with a girl called Milly Mayfair in back of Rod’s garage on Grant Street - same street Carlo lived on in Denver. That’s when my father was still working at the smithy’s a bit. I remember my aunt yelling out the window, ’What are you doing down there in back of the garage?’ Oh honey Marylou, if I’d only known you then! Wow! How sweet you musta been at nine." He tittered maniacally; he stuck his finger in her mouth and licked it; he took her hand and rubbed it over himself. She just sat there, smiling serenely. (II.6.15)

Dean’s proclivity for very young girls may have something to do with the circumstances of his own first sexual experience.

Quote #48

"Poor Dean," said Marylou, and she kissed him. He stared ahead proudly. He loved her. (II.6.18)

Although Sal is later glad that Dean ends up with Camille, he repeatedly speaks highly of the love between Dean and Marylou.