Sex Is So Much More Than Two Bodies Connecting

“To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.”

— Fiona Thrust, amazon.com

“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”

— Anatole Broyard, amazon.com

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or -- such is the pleasure they experience -- they may never finish it.…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”

— Patricia Briggs, amazon.com

“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”

— James Redfield, amazon.com

“Love is friendship. Just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.”

— Elizabeth Hunter, amazon.com

“Although 'making love' may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so much make love as they are remade by love -- dipped into the fire, melted down, reshaped. If they are devoted to one another, love will transform them, dissolving the shells of…”

— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious remembrances for hours after. It has you craving it days later. And it has you aching for it if you don’t get it for awhile.”

— Roberto Hogue, amazon.com

“Making love is not something you do to someone -- it's something you share. Lovemaking between men and women should be mutually pleasurably. Both women and men should be fully and completely satisfied.”

— J.F. Kelly, amazon.com

“Through sexual intimacy, two human beings become one mind, body and soul wrapped up in the cocoon of their skin.”

— Abhijit Naskar, amazon.com

“Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right).”

— Alexandra Katehakis, amazon.com

“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

“Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.”

— T. F. Hodge, amazon.com

“Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to ourselves.”

— Alexandra Katehakis, amazon.com

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”

— Isabel Allende, amazon.com

“Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.”

— Zeena Schreck, amazon.com

“I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God.”

— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of lo…”

— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com

“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex 'knowing.' Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”

— Damon Suede, amazon.com

“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”

— Stephen Fry, amazon.com

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com

“The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never…”

— Fiona Zedde, amazon.com

“Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean 'love' and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection... There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.”

— Laura Sessions Stepp, amazon.com

“Oh, you know. Jace reminds me of an old boyfriend. Some guys look at you like they want sex. Jace looks at you like you've already had sex, it was great, and now you're just friends -- even though you want more.”

— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com

“Let a woman too close, and while she sucked your cock, she sucked your brains and manhood right out of you, too.”

— Larissa Ione, amazon.com

“Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.”

— Emma Chase, amazon.com

“Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time.”

— Samantha Young, amazon.com

“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com

“Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.”

— Thomm Quackenbush, amazon.com