The Naked and the Nude Lust Quotes

We usually think of lust as being sort of shameful, right? But between lovers it's a really, really good thing. Maybe that's why there's no "reproach" in looking at a naked body. Instead, the body seems to be on fire, like the sun.

Woah. We get a totally different kind of lust at play here: lust for power. C'mon, folks. The Goddess on a lion? That's a pretty powerful form of nakedness.

What inspires lust? Probably a good seduction, right? And that's just what the nude promises. If Cosmo is right, no one likes a shrinking violet.

Notice how the verbs in these descriptions are all conjugations of "to be"? The nudes don't seem sly. Nope. They ARE sly, which is funny, because "nudes" tend to describe artworks, like paintings or statues. (If that's what's meant here, we've got some pretty powerful personification going on.) And it's a little weird for art to be sly. Another reading here is that the speaker is not describing art so much, as its effects on an audience (boldly impactful, or slyly suggestive).

Hmm. When someone shouts, "Let's get naked!" it just sounds a whole lot more exciting than when someone says, "Let us now take advantage of our deficiency of dress and shelter." (Talk about a weird pick-up line.) This just goes to prove our poet's point: some words are more lust-inspiring than others. And "dress deficiency" just isn't all that high on our list.

Yeah, yeah, we know. This is so far from sexy that we can't even believe it's in the lust category. But hear us out: we're pretty sure that the turn to dead bodies at the end is sorta the point. Not everything is about sexy times. Sometimes bodies are just…bodies. They die. (And then they run around and get whipped. Of course.)