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Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.