It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.