“Over all? Just communicate. Be the girl who is unafraid to ask for what she wants and give her partner what they want. That’s how you have the best sex. It just is.”— Lola Black, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nothing seals a great kiss like telling each other, ‘You’re a great kisser.’ People love to hear when they’re doing something right.”— Amanda Chatel, bustle.com
“A perfect kiss isn’t just one kiss, it’s a series of well timed kisses. Kiss your date for a few seconds, and move your head back slowly, but keep it within a few inches from your date’s face. It makes you feel more in control, and you’ll be able to read your date’s expression too.”— Gerry Sanders, lovepanky.com
“Feel your date’s lips softly touch your own and spend a few seconds trying to understand who takes the upper lip or who takes the lower lip.”— Gerry Sanders, lovepanky.com
“Set up a feedback system, like having your partner pull on your hair if she likes what you're doing and pat you if she doesn't.”— Taylor Kubota, mensjournal.com
“When you get into a good rhythm and she’s about to orgasm, resist the urge to speed up or change anything. Trust that you both communicate honestly enough that she'll tell you if something's not working.”— Zeynep Yenisey, maxim.com
“I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“The dirty little secret of casual sex today is not that we’re having it but that we’re not sharing our experiences of it in the best way.”— Maria Konnikova, newyorker.com
“It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“42nd B'day ideas: for everyone to stop using the word 'like' incessantly in conversation. It's, like, a constant and it's, like, egregious.”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com
“Sex makes bumble-tongued fools even out of the most eloquent, but the beauty of it is that it also tunes our ears to hear the meaning of words that, spoken under other circumstances, would make us laugh or cry or frown.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“To tell you the truth, beginning a sentence with, “To tell you the truth,” throws into question all else you’ve previous said.””— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's grea…”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”— George Bernard Shaw, mannerofspeaking.org
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Ask him nicely. Obviously, the first step in getting what you want is asking for it. You should never expect anyone, even your boyfriend, to just know what you want. He's not a mind reader and it's not fair to expect him to be one.”— Jessica Booth, gurl.com
“A partner who is pushy, not tuned in to your pleasure, or clumsy is probably not the right one to explore anal with, unless they devote themselves to learning more about being a good lover.”— Carol Queen, alternet.org
“Unlike other body parts that become ooey-gooey all on their own, the anus is not a self-lubricating organ. But due to the wonders of modern science, this need not be a problem. Lube—whether water, silicone, or flaxseed based—solves that problem for us. And be sure to go slow, communicate throughout,…”— Patrick Howell O'Neill, dailydot.com
“You are walking to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss told you if you are late one more time you're fired. Do you save the dog?”— Ally the Bruce, allysrandomage.blogspot.com