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Creativity Quote by Ricky Martin

"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror"

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Ricky Martin draws a clean line where pop culture usually smears everything together: the body as marketing, desire as public property. By insisting that “sexuality and sensuality are completely different things,” he’s reclaiming sensuality as innate atmosphere - the way a person moves, the heat in their performance, the charisma that reads as flirtation even when no promise is being made. “Sensuality is something that you’re born with” reframes what audiences often treat as an invitation into something closer to temperament. It’s a defense against the old celebrity equation: if you project it, you owe explanations.

The second half is the real move. “Sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror” is privacy phrased as ritual. The mirror suggests self-recognition, self-definition, and self-acceptance - not a press release. He’s signaling that sexuality isn’t a costume for fans, a puzzle for tabloids, or a commodity for brand partnerships. It’s an intimate conversation with the self, and the world doesn’t get to audit it.

The context matters: Martin’s career was built in an era when Latin pop stardom came with compulsory heterosexuality, and “sex symbol” was both fuel and trap. This line reads as a boundary-setting statement from someone who knows how easily sensual performance gets misread as public access. It’s also an elegant refusal: you can watch the show, you can feel the charge, but you don’t get the key.

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Martin, Ricky. (2026, January 15). Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sexuality-and-sensuality-are-completely-different-152180/

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Martin, Ricky. "Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sexuality-and-sensuality-are-completely-different-152180/.

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"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sexuality-and-sensuality-are-completely-different-152180/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Ricky Martin (born November 2, 1971) is a Musician from USA.

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